barren
英 ['bær(ə)n]
美['bærən]
- 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
词态变化
名词: barrenness;
助记提示
1. 经常泡bar，变成 bar 人，而不孕不育.
2. bare => barren (去e然后双写r加-en).
3. 赤裸的、光秃秃的什么都没有，当然就很贫瘠的、不毛的、荒芜的、不生育的。
4. barren 贫瘠 “拜伦生活在一块贫瘠的山地上”
2. bare => barren (去e然后双写r加-en).
3. 赤裸的、光秃秃的什么都没有，当然就很贫瘠的、不毛的、荒芜的、不生育的。
4. barren 贫瘠 “拜伦生活在一块贫瘠的山地上”
中文词源
barren 贫瘠的
词源不详，可能同bare, 裸露的，荒凉的。
英英释意
- 1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
- "the barrens of central Africa"
- "the trackless wastes of the desert"
英文词源
- 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]
同义词辨析
bare, naked, bald, barren
这些形容词都含"裸露的"之意。
bare： 指缺少必要的遮盖物。用于人时，多指身体的部分裸露。
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。
barren： 着重缺少肥力或生活能力，无草无木，荒瘠不毛。
考试真题
- This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe completely barren.
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实用场景例句
- The team will come through this barren patch and start to win again.
- 这个队将会在经历这段低潮时期之后再创佳绩。
牛津词典
- a barren desert
- 不毛的沙漠
牛津词典
- a barren landscape (= one that is empty, with few plants)
- 寸草不生的荒凉景色
牛津词典
- ...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.
- 该国草木稀少的高山地貌
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
- 他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.
- 陈腐盲目的政见
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...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
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a three-year-old barren mare.
- 一匹不孕的3岁母马
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Excessive exploitation makes the soil barren.
- 过度开发使这些土地变得贫瘠了.
期刊摘选
- In the barren tree they might read both their sin and its punishment.
- 在这棵不结果子的树上,他们该看出自己的罪和罪的刑罚.
期刊摘选
- Unbelievably barren soil, but olive trees everywhere.
- 难以置信的荒芜土地上却到处是橄榄树.
期刊摘选
- Apparent differences of the phenomenon of ear barren tip were found among genotypes.
- 果穗秃尖性状存在着基因型间的差异.
期刊摘选
- For if dreams go. Life is a barren field. Frozenwith snow.
- 如果梦想消失了, 生活就变成了积满冰雪的不毛之地.
期刊摘选
- Turn the barren hill into an orchard.
- 把荒山变成果园.
期刊摘选
- Cornucopia win, barren hills greenwood change.
- 要得聚宝盆, 荒山变绿林.
期刊摘选
- For years this land remained barren and isolated.
- 这片土地多年以来荒芜贫瘠,与世隔绝.
期刊摘选
- She is a barren woman and her husband desires the blessing issue.
- 她不能生育,而她丈夫却渴望能有子女.
期刊摘选
- Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.
- 紧紧抓住梦想,因为一旦梦想离开, 生活就会变成贫瘠荒芜的土地,只有冰雪覆盖.
期刊摘选
- Again we realise that this was impossible, humanly speaking , as Sarai was barren.
- 我们再次认为这不可能, 因为亚伯兰没有后裔.
期刊摘选
- Ear barren tip was an important character relevant to yield performance.
- 玉米果穗秃尖是一个重要的产量相关性状.
期刊摘选
- Its rocky and barren character seems to offer all we need for our experiment.
- 依我看,这儿土质干燥,岩石很多,给我们的实验提供了所有的有利条件.
辞典例句
- The formerly [ once ] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
- 昔日的荒地今天成了良田.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- She is a barren woman.
- 她是个不能生育的妇女.
《简明英汉词典》
- The land is barren on the east coast.
- 东海岸的土地贫脊.
《现代英汉综合大词典》