1. Both marriage and family involve long-term obligations and responsibility for shared care, not just the search of happiness, that hollow goal of the modern age.
    婚姻和家庭意味着互相关爱的长期义务与责任，而不仅仅是寻求幸福，这一摩登时代的空洞目标。

2. They are hollow, which makes them very light.
    它们是空心的, 所以很轻.

3. Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world after all.
    汤姆自言自语说世界并不是如此空虚。

4. He gets the solid shape, as it were, inside his head----he thinks of it, whatever its size, as if he were holding it completely enclosed in the hollow of his hand.
    可以说，当他想像一个物体时，不管其大小如何，他脑子里得到的是一个立体的概念，就好像完全握在自己手心里一样。

5. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.
    生命对他来说是空虚的，活在世上不过是一种负担。