empty shell

ˈɛmpti ʃɛl
empty shell: outer covering left after contents are removed
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Translation of empty shell from English into Chinese

Noun

1.

object

outer covering left after contents are removed
空壳 kōng ké外壳 壳体
  • After the storm, the beach was covered in empty shells.暴风雨过后,海滩上遍布着空壳。
2.

metaphor

person or thing lacking real value or purpose
空壳 kōng ké空洞的壳
  • After the tragedy, he became an empty shell.悲剧发生后,他变成了一个空壳。
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Expressions with empty shell: examples in English and translations in Chinese

一个空壳
空虚的人
After the tragedy, he felt like just an empty shell.
I'm just an empty shelln.
After the loss, I'm just an empty shell with no joy left.

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  • empty shell: outer covering left after contents are removed
    (object) 空壳

Synonyms and analogies of empty shell in English

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Examples of empty shell in a sentence

  • After the snail moved on, only an empty shell remained.
  • The company is now just an empty shell.
  • He smiled, but he was an empty shell inside.

Translations of "empty shell" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Noun
空壳n. - kōng ké

The tax bureau determined that the trading platform was just an empty shell company.

税务局认定该交易平台实际上只是一个空壳公司。

So what the governor got was an empty shell.

最后总督得到的只是个空壳。

Better half an egg than empty shell.

半只蛋也比空壳好。

The report concludes the nonprofit organization is just an empty shell company legally.

报告得出结论,这家非营利机构在法律上只是一个空壳公司。

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Other translations for empty shell:

  • 的皮包公司
  • 空弹壳

empty shell: Examples and translations in context

The so-called holding group is just an empty shell company used for financing.

这个所谓的控股集团不过是一个用于融资的空壳公司。

Auditors found that several subsidiaries were just empty shell companies without operations.

审计人员发现几家子公司都只是没有业务的空壳公司。

Regulators discovered the foreign subsidiary was just an empty shell with no employees.

监管部门发现这家海外子公司只是一个没有员工的空壳公司。

Due diligence confirmed their overseas partner was just an empty shell company registered offshore.

尽职调查证实,他们的海外合作方只是一家离岸注册的空壳公司。

Our legal team warned that their joint venture proposal involves just an empty shell.

法务团队警告说,他们的合资方案涉及的只是一个空壳公司。

Without capital injection, the tech startup will remain just an empty shell company.

如果没有资金注入,这家科技初创企业只能继续做空壳公司。

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