Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense vacuums, present participle vacuuming, past tense, past participle vacuumed
1N-COUNT [usually singular]空位;空缺;空白 If someone or something creates a vacuum, they leave a place or position which then needs to be filled by another person or thing. 空位;空缺;空白
The collapse of the army left a vacuum in the area.
这支军队的溃败使这个地区出现了军事真空。
His presence should fill the power vacuum which has been developing over the past few days.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + VACUUMADJECTIVE➤perfect完全真空▸➤cultural, moral, political, spiritual文化真空;道德真空;政治真空;精神空虛◇The writer criticized the moral vacuum in society.作家批評了社會的道德缺失。➤power權力真空◇Her resignation left a power vacuum in the government.她的辭職造成政府出現了權力真空。➤leadership領導層真空➤security安全真空VERB + VACUUM➤create, leave, produce製造/留下/產生真空◇The machine then creates a vacuum.這樣機器便製造出一個真空。➤fill填補真空◇Other gases rush in to fill the vacuum.其他氣體湧進來充滿真空。