barren
barren
英[ˈbærən]美[ˈbærən]
adj.荒芜的，无用的，空的，不育的；
名词：barrenness;
例句
This is a barren argument.这是一场毫无结果的争论。
She is a barren woman.她是个不能生育的妇女。
The barren land could produce little food.那贫瘠的土地几乎不长庄稼。
Their metaphor degenerates into a series of isolated and barren conceits.他们的隐喻变为一系列孤立而贫乏的牵强附会.
He clumped after her , up the stairs, into his barren office.他拖着沉重的步伐跟在她的后面上楼了, 走进了他那个空荡荡的诊所.
As the leaves of autumn wither and fall, so has my own life become barren.我的生命就如秋叶般枯萎凋零。
It possessed every outcropping of rock, every curve of dune on a barren and gelid shore.这里也有凛冽荒凉的海边那种礁岩嶙峋, 沙丘起伏的景色.
The massive sulfide contains fragments of barren and mineralized gabbro, and schist.块状硫化物中含有矿化的和未矿化的辉长岩及片岩碎块.
They had to encamp on the barren hills outside and wait for help to come.他们只好在城外荒山上扎营,等待救援.
Here vegetation is exiguous, edaphic barren, drought little rain, natural disaster is frequent.这里植被稀少, 土壤瘠薄, 干旱少雨, 自然灾难频繁.
英语六级真题
This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe completely barren.
2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
ADJ-GRADED
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.
例句
...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.该国草木稀少的高山地貌ADJ-GRADED
贫瘠的
Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.
例句
He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。ADJ-GRADED
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.
例句
...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.陈腐盲目的*见...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ADJ
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.
例句
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。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。ADJ
不育的；不孕的
A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies.
例句
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。...a three-year-old barren mare.一匹不孕的3岁母马英汉词典释义
adj.
贫瘠的
The barren land could produce little food.那贫瘠的土地几乎不长庄稼。不孕的, 不生育的; 不结果的
She is a barren woman.她是个不能生育的妇女。无用的, 空洞的, 无结果的
This is a barren argument.这是一场毫无结果的争论。英英词典释义
Noun
1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
"the barrens of central Africa""the trackless wastes of the desert"Adjective
1. providing no shelter or sustenance;
"bare rocky hills""barren lands""the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes""the desolate surface of the moon""a stark landscape"2. not bearing offspring;
"a barren woman""learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"3. incapable of sustaining life;
"the dead and barren Moon"行业词典
医学： 不妊的；
