英语释义

• lacking in nutritive value;

  "the jejune diets of the very poor"

• lacking material form or substance; unreal;

  "as insubstantial as a dream"

  "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon"

片语

Too Insubstantial太纤弱

Insubstantial Scene虚白

insubstantial love镜花水月

insubstantial dream虚无缥缈的梦

slight轻视，忽略；怠慢

Superficial And Insubstantial浮而不实

insubstantial not substantial不结实的

incorporeal insubstantial unbodied无实体的

CAP OF THE INSUBSTANTIAL脆弱之帽

tender投标；辅助救火车；附属船；（挂在机车后的）煤水车；看管人

英汉例句

• a proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing.

  一个质子是一个原子很小的一部分，它自己当然不是一个实在的东西。

• or as zhang lei cny posted on sina weibo: 「women, work hard, earn money and buy your own home. after this, a man is as insubstantial as a cloud.」

  在这里输入译文或者可以像张蕾cny在新浪微博所说的南阳：「女人，努力工作，赚钱买自己的房子。之后，男人就是浮云了。」

• but given the pathetic state of our national finances and fannie「s not insubstantial role in the same, maybe it」s about time we gave this all-but bankrupt institution its due.

  但鑒于美国国家财政状况糟糕以及房利美对此负有不可推卸的责任，可能现在是时候让这家差一点破产的机构「安息」了。

• early aircraft were insubstantial constructions of wood and glue.

  早期的飞行器是木头和胶粘合的脆弱机器。

• but he says, on the other hand 「some girls open up their own businesses, such as a bar, and it「s actually not an insubstantial number. they have the start-up money at that point so it works out well.」

  但是他表示，另一方面，一些女孩开展了自己的事业，像是酒吧，实际上，他们是一组实在的数字，那时他们有了本钱，所以事业还进行得不错。

• sometimes, like an enraged tethered bear, mr brown fights back, howling that mr cameron is merely a 「shallow salesman」, an insubstantial con man.

  有时，布朗像被捆绑着的愤怒的熊一样于以反击，呵斥卡梅隆只不过是一个「肤浅的推销员」和徒有其表的骗子。

• gordon brown and tony blair were suckers for flashy but insubstantial ideas about transformation.

  戈登·布朗和托尼布·莱尔都喜好华而不实的改革想法。

• in the event of an insubstantial defect, the buyer is only entitled to a reduction in the purchase price.

  瑕疵为非实质性的，买方仅有权要求降低购买价格。

• he provided the dynamos, generators and power plants without which the bulbs were insubstantial baubles, and lit up lower manhattan with them.

  他提供了发电机、发生器和发电厂，没有这些，灯泡就是个没用的玩意。它们点亮了下曼哈顿。

• ingenious applications of substantial and insubstantial blows are incorporated in the movements and forces of wushu.

  巧妙应用程序的大量和虚的打击是在运动和力的武术成立为法团的。

• obama brushes aside the notion that his rhetoric is insubstantial . he says he would inspire people to come together to solve problems .

  奥巴马全然不理会那些说他措辞毫无实质的言论。他说他会鼓舞人民团结起来解决问题。

• gilded and charming delightful yet insubstantial they dip their toes into the waters of love and vanish abruptly if the water gets too warm.

  镀金、迷人、细腻而单薄，他们动用自己的脚落水的爱心和突然消失的水若过于热情。

• his world is, on the whole, made wonderfully interesting. but it is insubstantial .

  他的世界大体说来写得非常有趣。但是虚构的。

• tracking my fingertips over his olive skin, i」m struck by the potency and fragility of blood and breath and bone– these intricate, insubstantial casings that separate us, keep us alive.

  我的指尖在他橄榄色的皮肤上划过，血骨和呼吸的力量与脆弱同时击中了我——这种繁杂的、脆弱的感觉分开了我们，让我们得以喘息。

• they failed on both counts, though there was lots of worthy if insubstantial talk about open and transparent energy markets.

  但两方面的谈判均以失败告终，取而代之的是大量关于开放和透明的能源市场的空谈。

• after this, a man is as insubstantial as a cloud.

  之后，男人就是浮云了。

• at sunset the pier becomes a work of art, as insubstantial as a barred cloud floating on the fiery waves.

  日落的时候这个码头就成为一件艺术杰作，它就像是一朵被栅栏拦住的飘忽的云，在如火般红的波浪上浮动。

• it can't, because by itself the $600 billion it represents is, like my five dollars, insubstantial and ghostlike.

  它不能，因为就如同我手中的五美元一样，六千亿美元所代表的只是一个虚无的幽灵。

• he remains an elusive, insubstantial figure, if a very sad one, summed up by a journalist who knew him: 「at the end, these foreigners realise they have no home.」

  对读者而言，他仍是个难以捉摸、缺乏现实感的人物，但悲剧色彩浓厚。一个了解他的记者这样总结道：「最后，这些外国人都意识到他们没有家园。」

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cobwebby蛛网密布的；蛛网似的；布满蜘蛛网的

filmy朦胧的；薄膜的；薄的

flimsy薄纸；复写纸；打字纸

frothy多泡的；起泡的；空洞的，浅薄的

gauzy(Gauzy) （美、法）戈齐（人名）

gossamer轻飘飘的；薄弱的

gossamery轻而薄的；轻飘飘的

sleazy质地薄的；骯脏的；低级庸俗的；破烂的

unsubstantial薄弱的；不坚固的；无实质的

相反词

sturdy坚定的；强健的；健全的

substantial本质；重要材料