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barren

基本词汇

英 [ˈbærən]

美 [ˈbærən]

adj.贫瘠的;无效的;不育的

n.荒地

副词: barrenly 名词: barrenness

相关列句
The land was barren and infertile.(这片土地荒芜而贫瘠。)
First to colonize the barren land are the lowly lichens, surviving on bare rock.(首先聚居在这块贫瘠土地的是生活在光秃秃的岩石上的低贱地衣。)
Then he went off to a barren height.(于是巴兰上一净光的高处。)
Spiritual home is barren.(精神家园一片荒芜。)
But, we have just learned in chapter 11 that Sarai is barren.(但是,我们刚学了第11章说撒莱不能生育。)
All the houses, fences, and barren trees had new shapes.(所有的房屋、栅栏还有光秃秃的树木都换了新颜。)
The place used to be a stretch of barren land.(早先这里是一片不毛之地。)
Men pray in the barren landscape of Danganari, Niger.(在尼日尔Danganari贫瘠的土地上祈祷的男人们。)
He wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.(他想用该水来灌溉贫瘠的沙漠土地。)
According to the Nuzi texts, if a wife is barren, she is to provide a maidservant as a substitute to bear her husband's children.(根据Nuzi文件,如果一个妻子不能生育,她将提供一个女仆作为代替品来为她的丈夫生育孩子。)
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adj.(形容词)
  • 无益的,无效果的;没有结果的
  • 贫瘠的,不毛的,荒芜的
  • 不结果实的
  • 沉闷无趣的
  • 不妊的,不生育的,不孕的
  • 没有的,缺乏的
n.(名词)
  • 瘠地,荒地,不毛之地
  • 荒漠,芜原
  • 废石
  • 灌木丛生的沙地
v.(动词)
  • 使不结果实
adj.(形容词)
  • 贫瘠的 (of soil) too poor to produce a good crop
  • 不孕的,不能生育的; 不结果的 not able to produce children or young; producing no fruit or seed
  • 无用的,空洞的; 无结果的 useless; empty; producing no result

barren的翻译

noun

1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

e.g. the barrens of central Africa
the trackless wastes of the desert

Synonym: wastewasteland

adj

1. completely wanting or lacking

e.g. writing barren of insight
young recruits destitute of experience
innocent of literary merit
the sentence was devoid of meaning

Synonym: destitutedevoidfreeinnocent

2. not bearing offspring

e.g. a barren woman
learned early in his marriage that he was sterile

3. providing no shelter or sustenance

e.g. bare rocky hills
barren lands
the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
the desolate surface of the moon
a stark landscape

Synonym: barebleakdesolatestark

1. 荒芜的;缺少植被的;不毛的
A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.

e.g. ...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.
该国草木稀少的高山地貌

2. 贫瘠的
Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.

e.g. He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。

3. 无用的;无益的;无效果的
If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results.

barren

e.g. ...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.
陈腐盲目的政见
e.g. ...the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October...
这名选手赢得了10月的东京赛事,终结了长达14个月不胜的魔咒

barrenness
...a film that would force audiences to confront the barrenness of contemporary life.
一部会迫使观众直面当前空虚生活的电影

4. 空的;没有东西的
If you describe a room or a place as barren, you do not like it because it has almost no furniture or other objects in it.

e.g. The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration...
房间非常简朴,几乎没有任何家具和装饰。
e.g. Six stale loaves of brown bread formed a dark blot on the otherwise barren shelves.
6条变质的黑面包在原本空荡荡的架子上堆出了一个黑点儿。

5. 不育的;不孕的
A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies.

barren的解释

e.g. He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.
他祈祷自己不孕的妻子有朝一日能怀上宝宝。
e.g. ...a three-year-old barren mare.
一匹不孕的3岁母马

barrenness
...a ceremony designed to cure women of barrenness.
为治愈妇女不孕举行的仪式

1. 贫瘠的,不育的,无效的:dust-storm 沙尘暴 | barren 贫瘠的,不育的,无效的 | attributable 归因于

2. barren是什么意思

2. 贫瘠:necrosis 坏死 | barren 贫瘠 | futile 无用的

3. 无矿的:barranco 峡谷 | barren 无矿的 | barren lands 瘠地

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用作形容词(adj.)
  • The barren land could produce little food.
    那贫瘠的土地几乎不长庄稼。
  • The barren trees are cut down by the old man.
    老人砍了那些不结果的树。
  • She is a barren woman.
    她是个不能生育的妇女。
  • It was useless to continue such a barren argument.
    继续这种毫无结果的争论是无用的。
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adj.(形容词)
  • barren的基本意思是指土地“贫瘠的,荒芜的”,引申可指树或植物“不结果的”“不结籽的”或指女性或雌性动物本身“不孕的”或被认为“不孕的”。还可表示“无用的,空洞的,无结果的”,可指缺乏收益或回报。
  • barren后常接介词of。
  • barren不用于比较等级。
  • ☆ 直接源自中古英语的barain,意为已用过的土地。
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