vacantly

1 I saw him put his palms under his head on the pillow and lie there, staring vacantly up at the ceiling.

2 Usually friendly neighbors stared vacantly at one another as they reached for their morning papers.

3 At his weekly press conference, he froze and stared vacantly for about 20 seconds before his GOP colleagues standing behind him grabbed his elbows and asked if he wanted to go back to his office.

4 The man was making some kind of joke, and he nodded vacantly.

那人在讲着什么笑话, 他茫然地点点头.

5 One child spent her entire first week at the back of the class looking vacantly out of the window at the school gardens, tears silently streaming down her face.

6 Basically, Claire pulls the 18th century equivalent of a #yesallwomen campaign, and celebrates her victory by standing on a buttress and smiling vacantly at some wee bonny children.

7 He’s more like a two-faced friend who remains superficially friendly, who smiles broadly if not vacantly in your direction, so long as doing so doesn’t conflict with his interests.

8 “And I wish someone would dig an escape route out of here for me too,” she said, staring vacantly out the window.

9 When Gabriel is found, in 1986, vacantly walking in Manhattan, a brain tumor has erased his memories.

10 Her eyes stared vacantly and she wet the bed.

11 I listen vacantly because, like most of the other people in my orientation group, I hadn’t opted for the health insurance—the employee contribution seemed too high.

12 She sat there silently, staring at the blackboard vacantly.

她静静地坐在那儿, 神情茫然地盯着黑板.

13 They now more often appear staring vacantly or seeming disoriented, being psychologically removed from their situation.

她们现在更经常显得目光茫然或者似乎不知所措, 心理状态和实际遭遇挂不上钩.

14 The pen dropped from Darnay's fingers on the table, and he looked about him vacantly.

笔从达尔内指间落下, 他迷迷糊糊往周围看了看.

15 A thin, worn-looking woman sat alone at a cafe table, staring vacantly.

16 Lourdes prefers to confront reality—the brownstones converted to tenements in a matter of months, the garbage in the streets, the jaundice-eyed men staring vacantly from the stoops.

17 The 20 watercolors of Linda Thomas’ “Floating Babies” spin variations on a different kind of existential solitude as each infant sleeps, squirms, wails or vacantly stares in its own little world.

18 The seat was left vacant when the secretary resigned.

19 He stared vacantly into space.

他茫然若失地凝视空中.

20 It is a portrait within a portrait within a portrait: the gazing child; the man and the woman staring vacantly in opposite directions; the lottery table exerting its magnetic pull on passers-by.

1 心不在焉地

vaguely absently distractedly absent-mindedly

2 没精打采

vacant bland

3 茫然

lost blank absent vacant dazed vacuous absent-minded absentminded absently muddily stupor vacuity muddiness absent-mindedness stupefaction stagger petrify all at sea blankly daze vacancy blankness bemused uncomprehending perplex

4 心不在焉

absent vacant faraway absent-minded vaguely absently distractedly absent-mindedly vacancy absent-mindedness wool-gathering

5 茫然地

absently muddily blankly