blank
blank 英 [blæŋk] 美 [blæŋk]
adj. 空白的； n. 空白；
进行时:blanking 过去式:blanked 过去分词:blanked 第三人称单数:blanks 名词复数:blanks 比较级:blanker 最高级:blankest
- Something that's blank is empty or undecorated. A blank canvas hasn't been drawn or painted on yet — it's clean and unmarked.
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- adj. 空白的；
- n. 空白；
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1. a blank CD
空白光盘
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2. Sign your name in the blank space below.
把名字签在下面的空白处。
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3. Suddenly the screen went blank.
屏幕突然变成一片空白。
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4. Steve looked blankand said he had no idea what I was talking about.
史蒂夫显得很迷惑，说他不知道我在说什么。
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5. Please fill in the blanks.
请在空白处填写。
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6. If you can't answer the question, leave a blank.
如果回答不了问题，就空着它。
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7. My mind was a blank and I couldn't remember her name.
我脑子里一片空白，记不起她的名字了。
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8. I knew the answer, but I totally blanked during the test.
我本来知道答案，但考试时我什么都忘了。
- blank (adj.) early 13c., "white, pale, colorless," from Old French blanc "white, shining," from Frankish *blank "white, gleaming," or some other Germanic source (compare Old Norse blakkr, Old English blanca "white horse;" Old High German blanc, blanch; German blank "shining, bright"), from Proto-Germanic *blangkaz "to shine, dazzle," extended form of PIE root *bhel-(1) "to shine, flash, burn," also "shining white."
- blank (n.) late 14c. as the name of a small French coin; 1550s as "white space in the center of a target," from the same source as blank (adj.). Meaning "empty space" (in a document, etc.) is from c. 1570. Meaning "losing lottery ticket" (1560s) is behind the expression draw a blank. The word has been "for decorum's sake, substituted for a word of execration" [OED] at least since 1854 (for compound words, blankety-blank), from the use of blank lines in printing to indicate where such words or the letters forming the bulk of them have been omitted. From 1896 as short for blank cartridge (itself from 1826).
- blank (v.) 1540s, "to nonplus, disconcert, shut up;" 1560s, "to frustrate," from blank (adj.) in some sense. Sports sense of "defeat (another team) without allowing a score" is from 1870 (blank (n.) as "a score of 0 in a game or contest" is from 1867). Meaning "to become blank or empty" is from 1955. Related: Blanked; blanking.
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