earthbound

英 [ˈɜːθbaʊnd]

美 [ˈɜːrθbaʊnd]

adj.  (只在)地球上的，陆地的，地面上的; 世俗的; 物质世界的; 缺乏想象力的

BNC.34052 / COCA.19899

牛津词典

adj.

• （只在）地球上的，陆地的，地面上的
  unable to leave the surface of the earth
  1. birds and their earthbound predators
     鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
• 世俗的；物质世界的；缺乏想象力的
  not spiritual or having much imagination

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 不能离开地面的；陆地上的；地面上的
  If something isearthbound, it is unable to fly, or is on the ground rather than in the air or in space.
  1. ...earthbound telescopes...
     地面望远镜
  2. The earthbound larvae from which they develop are less pretty, but just as predatory.
     幼虫生活在地面上，不像成虫后那么美丽，但是同样会捕食。
• ADJ-GRADED 缺乏想象力的
  If you describe someone or something asearthbound, you mean that they do not have very much imagination.
  1. ...the daughter of a stolid, earthbound salesman and a wild actress.
     冷漠实际的推销员和生活放荡的女演员所生的女儿

英英释义

adj

• confined to the earth
• lacking wit or imagination
  1. a pedestrian movie plot
  Synonym:pedestrianprosaicprosy

双语例句

• I'm absolutely sure that Brian is still earthbound.
  我有绝对的肯定布莱恩还在这里。
• In the relative and remote structure that regards a family as core, the dissertation discusses father-clan relative relationship, mother-clan relative relationship, function of earthbound and administration, and then deeply understand constitution principle of the Tujia basic society.
  分析了坡脚土家族以家庭为核心的差序格局中，父系亲属关系，母系亲戚关系，地缘与行政关系的功能，从而深化理解土家族基层社会的构成原则。
• Earthbound prices are returning many markets to "fair value", defined as the long-run average ratio of house prices to disposable income and to rents.
  低房价正使许多市场回归“公允价值”，公允价值是以房价与收入和租金的长期平均比值衡量。
• Newton took the principles of motion and of gravitation as deduced from observations of earthbound objects and extended them to the motions of the earth and of the planets around the sun.
  牛顿观察物体往地上落，演绎出运动原则和引力原则，并将这些原则扩展到地球的运动和环绕太阳运转的行星的运动。
• The earthbound life required no grocery stores, only time gathering edible plants and berries.
  靠土地吃饭的生活不需要杂货店，只需要有时间采集可以食用的植物和浆果。
• No, these aren't deleted scenes from sci-fi epic Avatar-these spectacular images show mesmerising phosphorescent patterns swirling through a forest that are all produced by earthbound insects.
  这些精美森林照片显示梦幻般的荧光散布在森林之中，但这些壮观美丽的图像并不是科幻电影《阿凡达》中的删节片段，画面中的荧光物质居然是由萤火虫释放的。
• The analysis on earthbound methods and circulating of electric-net
  电网接地方式与运行分析
• The space shuttle remained earthbound because of a technical fault.
  由于技术错误，航天飞机仍不能离地。
• Whereas, basic reasons of crimes with floating population are the loss of earthbound order existing in floating population in urban and the loss of the expectancy of surviving and developing of floating population.
  流动人口犯罪的基础性原因是存在于流动人口群体中的乡土秩序在城市中的失落，以及由此而产生的流动人口生存与发展预期的落空。
• As metaphors go, cloud computing sounds nice but is misleading. Clouds are in the sky; server farms are decidedly earthbound.
  云在天上飘，而组成云计算的服务器网络显然是在地面上。