英语释义

• incapable of sustaining life;

  "the dead and barren Moon"

• not bearing offspring;

  "a barren woman"

  "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;

  "the barrens of central Africa"

  "the trackless wastes of the desert"

• providing no shelter or sustenance;

  "bare rocky hills"

  "barren lands"

  "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"

  "the desolate surface of the moon"

  "a stark landscape"

片语

barren sand不毛沙地；无油砂层

barren a不生育的

barren rock无油气的巖层；空白巖石；无矿巖；废石

barren intercalation无矿夹层

barren land荒地；不毛之地

barren field贫瘠的荒野；无油气地区

barren gap无油地段

Barren Lab贫瘠实验室

barren sterile贫瘠的

英汉例句

• he became transfixed by the way in which the barren desert would burst into bloom after rainfall.

  当看到澳大利亚贫瘠的沙漠在雨后百花齐放的景象时，他惊呆了。

• it is certainly a remarkable structure distinctly resembling a spaceship that has landed in a middle of a barren plain.

  它当然有着非凡的设计结构，就像一艘太空船降落于贫瘠平原的中部。

• the president, lee myung-bak, flew off to abu dhabi on the eve of the decision to gladhand the locals, promising to help the barren statelet recreate south korea’s economic miracle.

  韩总统李明博在投标决策前夜飞往阿布扎比，面对当地民众做下承诺，表示将为这片贫瘠的土地上带来韩国当年的经济飞腾。

• he pushes open a factory door to reveal a patch of barren scrubland; the factory, it turns out, is just a fa?ade. 「amazing!」 he shouts, gesturing at the empty space.

  只见他推开工厂的大门，却是出一片荒芜的灌木林——原来这家工厂只是一个空壳子——接着他朝着虚空做着手势大喊道：「太棒了！」

• two hundred years ago, ascension island was a barren volcanic edifice.

  两百年前，阿森松岛是一个贫瘠的火山结构残迹。

• biologists have found slime molds in antarctica, in barren deserts, high in the canopies of jungles and even on the leaves of household plants.

  生物学家在南极洲、贫瘠的沙漠、丛林的树冠、甚至家居植物的叶片上发现了黏菌。

• egypt makes much of its water recycling and desalination programmes, arguing that the country's barren environs have forced it to use meagre water resources efficiently.

  埃及宣称自己在海水淡化方面作出了巨大的努力，认为其贫瘠的环境迫使他们更加高效地利用有限的水资源。

• the dried, hardened remains of the lahar persist today, a streak of barren rock on a landscape that is otherwise richly vegetated.

  干硬后的泥流残余维持至今，在植被茂密的该区形成一处贫瘠的巖石条纹状地貌。

• beside the barren zeya he heard of the shilka, where peas, barley and buckwheat grew.

  在贫瘠的结雅河边他听说有一条石勒喀河，那里生长着豌豆、大麦和荞麦。

• and climate change will probably shift patterns of production; some marginal land will become infertile; land now barren will come into production; some countries will import more, others export more.

  此外，气候变化可能会转变生产方式，一些面积较小的土地将会变得贫瘠，目前贫瘠的土地将会投入生产，一些国家将增加进口，同时其他国家会增加出口。

• when europeans arrived in 1722, they found the island mostly barren and its inhabitants few.

  当欧洲人1722年到达该岛时，发现它已经相当贫瘠，几乎没有居民。

• the nile river carves a fertile scar through this arid part of egypt, providing a lifeline in an otherwise barren region.

  尼罗河在埃及这一干旱地带形成了一个肥沃的漫滩，为原本贫瘠的地区提供了一条生命线。

• the latest finding is further evidence that the moon is not the dry, barren place it appears and could reinvigorate scientific interest.

  最新的发现进一步证明，月球不是它看起来那样的干枯贫瘠，并可能重振人们的科学兴趣。

• in spite of that big, barren space between you and your goal, in spite of the fear of rejection or humiliation, dance.

  尽管在你和你的目标之间横亘着那个宽大贫瘠的空地，尽管害怕被拒绝或者羞辱——跳舞吧。

• we should see nothing but barren fields, overrun with weeds and biers; and the farmer would feel that a winter of want and distress is before him.

  我们只会看到贫瘠的土地，野草疯长，荆棘丛生。这个时候农民们就会感觉到，一个匮乏而忧伤的冬季就在他们面前。

• after 11 barren years, ching-ching died in 1985 and chia-chia was shipped off to mexico zoo to try (and fail) to mate with the resident panda there.

  在11年不生育之后，青青于1985年去逝，而恰恰被送到了墨西哥动物园试图（但未成功）和当地的熊猫配对。

• when residents of iran’s capital seek escape from its choking smog, they often head for the hills, or rather the barren mountains that soar above tehran’s northern suburbs.

  如果伊朗首都的居民想远离一下这个城市令人窒息的烟雾的话，他们常会跑到山丘上去，或者是到矗立在德黑兰北边郊区的那些荒芜的山脉上。

• quitesimply haiti has become a barren land without the resources support itspopulation - and suffers from gross over-population relative to theenvironment.

  很简单，海地成为了一个没有资源支撑的贫瘠土地，人口过多，与环境无法协调。

相似词

impotent无力的；无效的；虚弱的；阳萎的

childless无子女的

unfertile不富饶的；不肥沃的

unproductive非生产性的；徒劳的；不毛的；不生产的

blank(Blank)人名；(法)布朗克；(英、德、西、俄、罗、捷、瑞典、芬)布兰克

sterile不育的；无菌的；贫瘠的；不毛的；枯燥乏味的

fruitless不成功的，徒劳的；不结果实的

abortive失败的；流产的；堕胎的

unproductive非生产性的；徒劳的；不毛的；不生产的

hollowad 彻底地；无用地

arid干旱的；不毛的，[农] 荒芜的

unfertile不富饶的；不肥沃的

sterile不育的；无菌的；贫瘠的；不毛的；枯燥乏味的

empty使失去；使…成为空的

childless无子女的

vacant(Vacant)人名；(法)瓦康

deserted遗弃；放弃；抛弃；开小差（desert 的过去式和过去分词）

void无效的；空的；无人（居住）的；缺乏的

blank(Blank)人名；(法)布朗克；(英、德、西、俄、罗、捷、瑞典、芬)布兰克

相反词

rich油腻的，含有很多脂肪

fertile富饶的，肥沃的；能生育的