insubstantial

常見例句

雙語例句

• A beautiful but insubstantial girl, in 1943 she ran off with the much older Charlie Chaplin.
  1943年，這位充滿幻想的美麗女孩與比其年長許多的查理·卓別林私奔。
• 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.
  我的指尖在他橄欖色的皮膚上劃過，血骨和呼吸的力量與脆弱同時擊中了我——這種繁襍的、脆弱的感覺分開了我們，讓我們得以喘息。
• Water also is insubstantial; by that I mean you cannot grasp hold of it, you cannot punch it and hurt it.
  水也是沒有實躰的，這樣說是指你無法抓住水，你無法擊打它、傷害它。

權威例句

• Otherwise, we are trying to build on sand or air or something equally insubstantial.
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• An amiable, insubstantial amble around Galway, on the west coast of Ireland, in the company of Sgt.
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• There will be benefits to be sure, but there will be costs as well, some not wholly insubstantial.
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