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Sat 19 Jan, 2013 08:10 am
"The Fulbright ended. We came home, after two years abroad, to boring jobs and American excess. John didn’t like his teaching position. I didn’t like being a grunt at the Palm Beach Post after two years as a managing editor in Budapest. Even our small apartment with the air conditioner unit stuck in the dining-room window felt hollow."
I don't understand the last sentence. Why did the apartment seem hollow?
@Justin Xu,
Hi Justin.
In this context, feeling hollow means empty/meaningless.
Feeling hollow is sometimes used to express emotional depression.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hollow
The couple has boring, meaningless, empty jobs. Even their home seems boring, meaningless, empty.
Not necessarily empty in that there is no furniture - can't tell that from the snippet you gave us - it simply feels empty of meaning.
@Justin Xu,
it is not "a hollow apartment" that you're trying to define/translate, it is "a hollow feeling" that is the phrase that needs to be translated.
@JTT,
I guess, it's an apartment that anyone feels hallow every time they enter the apartment there are some apartment like that. It's a feeling of emptiness because of the apartments aura...
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