barren

英 [ˈbærən]

美 [ˈbærən]

adj.  贫瘠的; 不毛的; 不结果实的; 不育的; 不孕的
n.  荒原; 不毛之地

复数：barrens　

CET6考研TOEFLIELTSGRETEM4TEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.9656 / COCA.8809

同义词辨析

desertedbarrenwild【导航词义：空寂的，荒芜的】

牛津词典

adj.

• 贫瘠的；不毛的
  not good enough for plants to grow on it
  1. a barren desert
     不毛的沙漠
  2. a barren landscape (= one that is empty, with few plants)
     寸草不生的荒凉景色
• 不结果实的
  not producing fruit or seeds
• 不育的；不孕的
  not able to produce children or young animals
• 无益的；无效果的
  not producing anything useful or successful
  1. 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。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 荒芜的；缺少植被的；不毛的
  Abarrenlandscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
  1. ...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.
     该国草木稀少的高山地貌
• ADJ-GRADED 贫瘠的
  Barrenland consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.
  1. 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 asbarren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results.
  1. ...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.
     陈腐盲目的政见
  2. ...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
  3. 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。
• ADJ 空的；没有东西的
  If you describe a room or a place asbarren, you do not like it because it has almost no furniture or other objects in it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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
  Abarrenwoman or female animal is unable to have babies.
  1. 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。
  2. ...a three-year-old barren mare.
     一匹不孕的3岁母马

英英释义

noun

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  1. the barrens of central Africa
  2. the trackless wastes of the desert
  Synonym:wastewasteland

adj

• completely wanting or lacking
  1. writing barren of insight
  2. young recruits destitute of experience
  3. innocent of literary merit
  4. the sentence was devoid of meaning
  Synonym:destitutedevoidfreeinnocent
• not bearing offspring
  1. a barren woman
  2. learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
• providing no shelter or sustenance
  1. bare rocky hills
  2. barren lands
  3. the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
  4. the desolate surface of the moon
  5. a stark landscape
  Synonym:barebleakdesolatestark

双语例句

• He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
  他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The place used to be a stretch of barren land.
  早先这里是一片不毛之地。
• Freshwater and marine resources are increasingly polluted; soils and once-prolific fisheries are growing barren.
  淡水资源和海洋资源日益受到污染；土壤和一度丰富多产的渔场日趋贫瘠。
• One time, my classmates and I went to a barren village.
  有一次，我和同学去了一个贫痔的村庄。
• It was useless to continue such a barren argument.
  继续这种毫无结果的争论是无用的。
• Land that is desolate, barren, or ravaged.
  荒原荒凉、贫瘠或遭到毁坏之土地。
• Amazing how they have turned a barren hill into an orchard!
  想不到他们竟然把一座荒山变成了花果山。