中文翻译与英英解释 | adj.
1.不妊的，不会生育的，石女的。
2.(植物)不结子的；不毛的，(土地)荒芜的。 (opp. fertile ).
3.无益的，无效的，(计划)无结果的；(思想等)贫乏的，无趣味的，无聊的。
4.空，缺，无 (of). a barren effort 无效的努力。
短语和例子
be barren of result 无结果。
n.
〔常 pl. 〕不毛之地，荒地，芜原。
n.
-ness
不妊；秕粒；不毛；无趣味。
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| an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"
同义词：waste, wasteland,
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| completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
同义词：destitute, devoid, free, innocent,
| | not bearing offspring; "a barren woman"; "learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"
| | 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"
同义词：bare, bleak, desolate, stark,
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| Barren primarily refers to a state of Barrenness (infertility) |
例句与用法 | 1. | Kennicott's house is barren and gloomy .
肯尼科特的住宅又阴暗又寒酸。
| | 2. | At best it was a disease-ridden barren country
那无非是个疾病流行的穷国。
| | 3. | The place used to be a stretch of barren land ...
早先这里是一片不毛之地。
| | 4. | Is this world nothing but a barren lump of coke ?
难道这个世界只是一片荒芜，一堆煤炭？
| | 5. | Beyond the lower levels the world was still barren .
在这个世界的低地以外，依然寸草不生。
| | 6. | The formerly [once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields .
昔日的荒地今天成了良田。
| | 7. | The range soared above him, immense, clean, and barren .
峰峦在头顶上高插入云，广大无边，岩石光洁，草木不生。
| | 8. | They had to encamp on the barren hills outside and wait for help to come .
他们只好在城外荒山上扎营，等待救援。
| | 9. | Once again hearn realized how barren the general's tent was .
将军的帐篷太空落落了！侯恩又一次产生了这样的感触。
| | 10. | June 6 seems to have been for me an active and not barren day .
6月6日对我来说可说是一个极其活跃，未曾虚度的一日。
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