barren
adj. 贫瘠的；不生育的；无益的；沉闷无趣的；空洞的
n. 荒地
n. (Barren)人名；(西、英)巴伦
adj.
贫瘠的；不结果实的；不孕的；无价值的
n.
荒原，不毛之地；
变形
复数：barrens
双语释义
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
英英释义
barren[ 'bærən ]
n.an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
"the barrens of central Africa"
同义词：wastewasteland
adj.
providing no shelter or sustenance
"barren lands"
同义词：barebleakdesolatestark
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"
同义词：destitutedevoidinnocent
not bearing offspring
"a barren woman"
incapable of sustaining life
"the dead and barren Moon"
词汇搭配
用作形容词 (adj.)
～+名词
barren argument无结果的争论
barren cow不生小牛的母牛
barren desert荒漠
barren discussion毫无结果的讨论
barren fruit tree不结果的果树
barren land不毛之地
barren play缺乏刺激的剧本
barren region贫瘠的地区
barren struggle徒劳无益的斗争
barren topic没有价值的题目
barren trees不结果的树
barren wasteland贫瘠的荒地
～+介词
animals barren of intelligence毫无智力的动物
attempt barren of results毫无结果的尝试
life barren of pleasure毫无乐趣的生活
词组短语
barren land荒地；不毛之地
barren field贫瘠的荒野；无油气地区
barren rock无油气的岩层；空白岩石；无矿岩；废石
同近义词辨析
barren, naked, bald, bare这组词都有“裸露的”的意思，其区别是：
barren着重缺少肥力或生活能力，无草无木，荒瘠不毛。
naked指全身一丝不挂，暴露无遗。
bald指头上无发，山坡无树无草，树顶无叶。
bare指缺少必要的遮盖物。用于人时，多指身体的部分裸露。
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
No one could raise crops on this barren land.
没人能够在这么贫瘠的土地上种庄稼。
Life is a barren field frozen with snow.
生命就像是被雪覆盖的荒芜土地。
We shall turn this piece of barren land into wheat fields.
我们要把这块不毛之地变为麦田。
He was engaged in a barren argument with Paul.
他在同保罗作无用的争论。
Barren women are rejected by the tribesmen.
不孕的妇女被部落的男人遗弃。
权威例句
The role of barren stalk1 in the architecture of maize.Fire and human history of a barren-forest mosaic in southern Indiana
Energy expenditures for locomotion by barren-ground caribou
Feeding Patterns of Barren-Ground Grizzly Bears in the Central Canadian Arctic
Hierarchical habitat selection by barren-ground grizzly bears in the central Canadian Arctic
Functional Response of Wolves Preying on Barren-Ground Caribou in a Multiple-Prey Ecosystem
Progress in remediation and revegetation of the barren Jales gold mine spoil after in situ treatments
Chromatid segregation at anaphase requires the barren product, a novel chromosome-associated protein that interacts with Topoisomera...
Geochemical contrasts between early Cretaceous ore-bearing and ore-barren high-Mg adakites in central-eastern China: Implications fo...
Condensins, chromosome condensation protein complexes containing XCAP-C, XCAP-E and a Xenopus homolog of the Drosophila Barren protein
barren (adj.)
c. 1200, from Old French baraigne, baraing "sterile, barren" (12c.), perhaps originally brahain, of obscure derivation, perhaps from a Germanic language. In England, originally used of women, of land in France. Of land in English from late 14c. As a noun, mid-13c., "a barren woman;" later of land.
BARRENS. Elevated lands, or plains upon which grow small trees, but never timber. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]
1. Its dramatic mountains and barren deserts have spewed forth conquerors who ruled North Africa and Spain.
在它的崇山峻岭和荒凉的沙漠中曾经涌现出统治北非和西班牙的征服者。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. Is this world nothing but a barren lump of coke?
难道这个世界只是一片荒芜，一堆煤炭？
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. The range soared above him, immense, clean, and barren.
峰峦在头顶上高插入云，广大无边，岩石光洁，草木不生。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. I would begin a deliberately barren, limited relationship.
我想要建立一种故意弄得很枯燥的，有限的相互关系。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
5. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. At best it was a disease-ridden barren country
那无非是个疾病流行的穷国。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. Barren women are rejected by the tribesmen.
不孕的妇女被部落的男人遗弃。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. Beyond the lower levels the world was still barren.
在这个世界的低地以外，依然寸草不生。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. A few years back you could see nothing but barren land there.
数年前人们在那儿所能看到的只是荒野。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. To render an infusion permanently barren, it must be sealed hermetically and boiled.
要长久保持浸液的无生命状态，必须密封和煮沸。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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