| 词汇 | empty words/gestures/promises etc |
| 释义 | empty words/gestures/promises etcempty words/gestures/promises etc PRETENDwords etc that are not sincere, or have no effect 空话/做样子/空头许诺等 His repeated promises to pay them back were just empty words. 他一再答应还钱给他们，但只是说空话而已。 Examples from the Corpus empty words/gestures/promises etc• Hadn't he said that to express it would be just empty words?• He expected her to trust him, but as far as she could see they were just empty words.• He listens politely, then makes plausible but essentially empty gestures.• I tried to make choices, but wound up with empty gestures.• This is the circus of empty promises and dry press releases that are part and parcel of meetings like these.• These are not empty words and phrases, but principles given powerful institutional sanction.• To all these petitions the Crown returned empty promises of redress. → empty words/gestures/promises etc at empty1(2) |
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