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基本释义
  • a. 不育的,贫瘠的
    n. 荒地
词形变化
  • 名　词：bar'ren·ness
    副　词：bar'ren·ly
参考例句
    1. The barren land has been turned into fertile fields.
      贫瘠的土地已改成良田。
    2. We clothed barren mountains with greenery.
      我们绿化荒山。
    3. He was engaged in a barren argument with Paul.
      他在同保罗作无用的争论。
    4. He has arrived in the barren upland of central Spain.
      他已经到了西班牙中部的贫瘠高地。
    5. Nothing can grow in this barren land.
      在这块不毛之地上什么也不能生长。
英英解释

  • 　1个名词解释

    1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
      [同] barren, waste, wasteland
      [例]
      • the barrens of central Africa
      • the trackless wastes of the desert

    　4个形容词解释

    1. providing no shelter or sustenance
      [同] desolate, bare, barren, bleak, stark
      [例]
      • bare rocky hills
      • barren lands
      • the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
      • the desolate surface of the moon
      • a stark landscape
    2. completely wanting or lacking
      [同] destitute, devoid, innocent, barren
      [例]
      • writing barren of insight
      • young recruits destitute of experience
      • a novel devoid of wit and inventiveness
      • a life empty of happiness
      • innocent of literary merit
      • void of understanding
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