短语搭配
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barren land
荒地;不毛之地
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barren hill
荒山
双语例句
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This barren land is no longer habitable.
这片贫瘠的土地已经不再适合居住。
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No one could have imagined that these barrens would turn into small towns.
没有人能想到这些不毛之地会变成一座座小镇。
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This barren woman chose to adopt.
这位不孕的女子选择了领养。
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The formerly barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
昔日的荒地今天成了良田
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The land was barren and infertile.
这片土地荒芜而贫瘠。
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He wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
他想用该水来灌溉贫瘠的沙漠土地。
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That's probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I've ever seen.
那可能是我见过的最光秃、最荒凉、最贫瘠和最不适合居住的岛屿。
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The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration.
这个房间很简朴,几乎没有什么家具或装饰。
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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。
近义词
n.
wastewildernessabandoned land
同根词
单词辨析
百科
1. 词形变化: barrenlybarrenness\nadj. 贫瘠的,无效的,不育的例子用法\n1.Such a desert can support very few creatures.\n在这样荒瘠的沙漠里,很少生物能够存活。\n2.The once hillsides are now good farmland.\n昔日荒坡,今日良田。\n3.He has arrived in the upland of central Spain.\n他已经到了西班牙中部的贫瘠高地。\n4.The , inhospitable desert.\n那片贫瘠的、荒凉的沙漠\n5.Not bearing fruit or offspring; .\n不结果实的; 无效的不产生果实或后代的; 不育的\n6.It's useless to continue such a argument.\n继续这种无聊的争辩是无用的。\n7.Nothing can grow in this land.\n在这块不毛之地上什么也不能生长。
释义
adj.
(of land)too poor to produce much or any vegetation
(土地)贫瘠的,荒芜的。
(of a tree or plant)not producing fruit or seed
(树,庄稼)不结果实的。
archaic (of a woman) infertile
〈古〉 (妇女)不(生)育的,不妊的。
(of a female animal)not pregnant or unable to become so
(雌性动物)不妊的;不育的。
figurative showing no results or achievements; unproductive
〈喻〉 无效果的;徒劳的。
(of a place or building)bleak and lifeless
(地方,建筑)凄凉的,无生气的。
empty of meaning or value
无意义的,无价值的。
[predic.](barren of)devoid of
缺乏的
n.
chiefly N. Amer. a barren tract or tracts of land
〈主北美〉 (一块)瘠地
词源
"Middle English: from Old French barhaine, of unknown origin."