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Barren
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  • 易混淆的单词：barren  

  • 柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典

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1. 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. 

  • ...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.

    该国草木稀少的高山地貌

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

  • He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.

    他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。

3. 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. 

  • ...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.

    陈腐盲目的政见

  • ...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

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. 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. 

  • 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。

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

  • 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

barrenness

  • ...a ceremony designed to cure women of barrenness.

    为治愈妇女不孕举行的仪式

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"
1. She is a barren woman.
她是个不能生育的妇女。

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. The barren land could produce little food.
那贫瘠的土地几乎不长庄稼。

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3. The formerly [once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
昔日的荒地今天成了良田。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4. The land is barren on the east coast.
东海岸的土地贫脊。

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5. The place used to be a stretch of barren land.
早先这里是一片不毛之地。

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6. This is a barren argument.
这是一场毫无结果的争论。

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