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barrenness

['bærənnis] 生词本

  • 柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典

  • 英英释义

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

  • 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。

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. the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children

2. a condition yielding nothing of value