形容詞
形容文章冇乜內容 (of words or expressions) empty; devoid of content
呢篇文章內容空洞,言之無物。
呢篇文章内容空洞,言之无物。
lei1 pin1 man4 zoeng1 noi6 jung4 hung1 dung6, jin1 zi1 mou4 mat6. This passage is hollow. It's just empty verbiage.
形容詞
形容聲音好似喺個好空曠嘅環境入面,有好多迴音 (of a sound) hollow
我電腦個喇叭啲聲好空洞,係時候要換喇。
我电脑个喇叭啲声好空洞,系时候要换喇。
ngo5 din6 nou5 go3 laa3 baa1 di1 seng1 hou2 hung1 dung6, hai6 si4 hau6 jiu3 wun6 laa3. My computer speaker sounds very hollow. It's time for me to buy a new one.
Before WWII, the government built air-raid shelters at several locations in Hong Kong.
Examples (Wiktionary)
Mandarin
空洞的理论是没有用的,不正确的,应该抛弃的。对于好谈这种空洞理论的人,应该伸出一个指头向他刮脸皮。
空洞的理論是沒有用的,不正確的,應該拋棄的。對於好談這種空洞理論的人,應該伸出一個指頭向他刮臉皮。
kōng dòng de lǐ lùn shì méi yǒu yòng de , bù zhèng què de , yīng gāi pāo qì de . duì yú hào tán zhè zhǒng kōng dòng lǐ lùn de rén , yīng gāi shēn chū yī gè zhǐ tou xiàng tā guā liǎn pí .
Aimless theory is useless and false and should be discarded. We should point the finger of scorn at those who are fond of aimless theorizing.
Mandarin
我们的教条主义者违背列宁的指示,从来不用脑筋具体地分析任何事物,做起文章或演说来,总是空洞无物的八股调,在我们党内造成了一种极坏的作风。
我們的教條主義者違背列寧的指示,從來不用腦筋具體地分析任何事物,做起文章或演説來,總是空洞無物的八股調,在我們黨內造成了一種極壞的作風。
wǒ men de jiào tiáo zhǔ yì zhě wéi bèi liè níng de zhǐ shì , cóng lái bù yòng nǎo jīn jù tǐ de fēn xī rèn hé shì wù , zuò qǐ wén zhāng huò yǎn shuō lai , zǒng shì kōng dòng wú wù de bā gǔ diào , zài wǒ men dǎng nèi zào chéng le yī zhǒng jí huài de zuò fēng .
Our dogmatists have violated Lenin's teachings; they never use their brains to analyse anything concretely, and in their writings and speeches they always use stereotypes devoid of content, thereby creating a very bad style of work in our Party.