It's an attempt to remind people that there is something there, even if it is now quite empty, shallow and rhetorical.

其目的就在于提醒人民，的的确确是有某种东西存在着，哪怕现在相当地空洞、肤浅并且华而不实也无所谓。

youdao

I feel it so empty out here; these people are so funny-all foreign and shallow.

我在这儿感到非常空虚；这些外国气派而又浅薄的人简直滑稽透了。

youdao

Is telling us not to do that sharp-tongued thick-skinned belly of an empty mountain bamboo shoots and top-heavy wall of bedrock shallow reed.

就是告诫我们不要做那嘴尖皮厚腹中空的山间竹笋和头重脚轻根底浅的墙上芦苇。

youdao

I hope I've also passed to him the courage to ask questions and to not accept empty or shallow responses.

是的，我努力。我也希望他能有得到空虚敷衍的答案时，有不接受的勇气。

youdao

I hope I've also passed to him the courage to ask questions and to not accept empty or shallow responses.

是的，我努力。我也希望他能有得到空虚敷衍的答案时，有不接受的勇气。

youdao