rootless

英 [ˈruːtləs]

美 [ˈruːtləs]

adj.  无根的; 没有归宿的; 漂泊的

BNC.24290 / COCA.28366

牛津词典

adj.

• 无根的；没有归宿的；漂泊的
  having nowhere that you really think of as home, or as the place where you belong
  1. She had had a rootless childhood moving from town to town.
     她小时候居无定所，在各地流浪。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 居无定所的;无固定工作的;无归属的;漂泊的
  If someone has no permanent home or job and is not settled in any community, you can describe them asrootless.
  1. These rootless young people have nowhere else to go.
     这些漂泊不定的年轻人没有其他地方可去。
  2. ...people who refused to integrate within society and instead lived rootless, jobless lives.
     那些不愿意融入社会而过着漂泊不定、没有工作的生活的人

英英释义

adj

• wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
  1. led a vagabond life
  2. a rootless wanderer
  Synonym:vagabond

双语例句

• Researchers think that humble algae, which are simple, rootless plants that normally provide food for aquatic animals, could lead be a revolutionary tool in the battle against climate change.
  研究人员认为，这种简单、无根的微型藻类植物通常只是水生动物的食品，但是现在却变成了对抗气候变化的一个革命性工具。
• The rootless seedling with rootage powder treatment could improve survival rate obviously, but with weak growing condition, even cultured in humus.
  生根粉处理无根苗后，在珍珠岩中栽培成活率有明显提高，植株长势较差，在腐殖土中栽培成活率及植株长势没有明显变化。
• When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless". We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.
  一粒微小的玫瑰花籽被植入土壤时，我们并不因它“无根无茎”而加以批评。我们把它当做一粒种子来对待，施与它所需的水分和养料。
• Thus, the construction and "the hope" of their communicative theories would become a dream of rootless "Utopia".
  因而，其交往理论的建构及展望变成为“无根”的“乌托邦”梦想。
• A major characteristic of life in diaspora is rootless.
  流散生活的一个主要特点就是无根性。
• We must therefore constantly strengthen our traditional values and virtues of various ethnic communities and avoid becoming rootless duckweeds.
  因此，我们必须不断地加强和巩固各族群的传统价值观和美德，以避免成为无根的浮萍。
• I sat on our scratchy brick stoop, dangling my legs off the edge, feeling as rootless as I've ever felt.
  我在砖面粗糙的门廊上坐下，双脚悬荡着，一种前所未有的无根感涌上心头。
• You reduce both Western Civ and alternative canons to the same deracinated, rootless sort of nature as cultural capital.
  你给予了西方文明和选择性的经典，文化资本一样，孤立漂泊的本质。
• He is no Tony Blair, ideologically rootless, as I had previously suspected.
  与我之前的猜想不同，他不是思想飘忽不定的托尼•布莱尔（TonyBlair）。
• Not so long ago they conducted a protest, also in Kiev, against such a groundless and rootless flackery for swine flu epidemy in Ukraine.
  不久前，他们进行了抗议，也是在基辅，是针对猪流感毫无根据和无根据地在乌克兰蔓延扩散。