英汉词典

barren 基本解释

• 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

barren 词态变化

barren 中文词源

词源不详，可能同bare, 裸露的，荒凉的。

barren 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]

barren 英文释义

1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;

"the barrens of central Africa"

"the trackless wastes of the desert"

barren 同义词解析

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。

barren 双语例句

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。

来自柯林斯例句

2. He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.

他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。

来自柯林斯例句

3. 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。

来自柯林斯例句

4. a waterless barren region

干旱的荒芜地区

来自《权威词典》

5. The place used to be a stretch of barren land.

早先这里是一片不毛之地.

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

barren 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》