| 单词 | barren |
| 释义 | barren (bærən ) 1. adjective A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees. ...the country's landscape of high barren mountains. Synonyms: desolate, empty, desert, bare 2. adjective Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it. He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land. Synonyms: unproductive, dry, useless, sterile 3. adjective If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results. [written] ...the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October. As the leaves of autumn wither and fall, so has my own life become barren. barrenness uncountable noun [oft NOUN of noun] ...a film that would force audiences to confront the barrenness of contemporary life. 4. adjective If you describe a room or a place as barren, you do not like it because it has almost no furniture or other objects in it. [written, disapproval] The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration. [+ of] Six stale loaves of brown bread formed a dark blot on the otherwise barren shelves. Synonyms: empty [informal], clear, vacant, void 5. adjective A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies. [old-fashioned] He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child. ...a three-year-old barren mare. Synonyms: infertile, sterile, unproductive, nonproductive barrenness uncountable noun Collocations: barren desert After crossing hundreds of miles of barren desert, travellers would have encountered a staggeringly beautiful city hovering like a mirage before the oasis. Times, Sunday Times Their delivery into the world will be a defiant affirmation of life in this remote and barren desert. Times, Sunday Times Rangelands do not include barren desert, farmland, closed canopy forests, or land covered by solid rock, concrete and/or glaciers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The northeastern part of the plain ran into a barren desert. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It flows first north then west through a wide, barren desert valley bordered by high rocky buttes and cliffs. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The drought has forced tens of thousands to abandon barren fields for the cities in search of water and work, leaving scores of villages half-deserted. Times, Sunday Times Flower farms, with access to new irrigation schemes, have sprung up in once barren fields. Times, Sunday Times However, in recent past people have stopped agriculture and now we can see all the barren fields used by real estate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The street proceeds east, passing through four blocks of densely populated neighborhoods before exiting the village and abruptly entering vast, barren fields to the east. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He spotted a village on a high, mostly barren hill, and the task force pushed through to reach the town. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was a storm channel, which might have once acted as a moat, deterring intruders descending from the barren hills. Times, Sunday Times As our spacious train climbed above the tree line, the scenery changed to snowy, barren hills. The Sun The goal of the academy, in the early 1900s was to crusade for a change from the barren hills caused by forest fires and charcoal production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was told that flowers would bloom miraculously on the barren hillside which he should gather in his apron and take to the archbishop. Times, Sunday Times Over the years, they had moved from place to place, leaving behind them patches of barren hillside. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At the time, it was a largely barren hillside, where they built the ranch-house, and for many years cultivated roses that were used to manufacture a rose-drink. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What remains is a dry and barren land which can turn rapidly to desert. The Sun (2008) Britain is, thankfully, an ideologically barren land. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Locals said that the barren mountain was sacred, ecologists forecast disaster and regional politicians were accused of incompetence after initially supporting the plan. Times, Sunday Times Beneath our windy spur was a majestic bay and on the far side barren mountains and a slender arm of land reached out to sea. Times, Sunday Times The barren mountains in the rear, and the wild and desert appearance of the surrounding country, accorded well with the impressive narrative of that disaster. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its hinterlands consisted of a broad agricultural plain on the west bank and steep terraces on the east bank surrounded by barren mountains. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The more western parts of the steppe host lakes of glacial origin and grades into barren mountains or cold temperate forests along valleys. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They find themselves on an immense barren plain, with no other people anywhere, and no clue as to what has happened to the world. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An aerial view of the park reveals swathes of scorched, barren plains. Times, Sunday Times Tracks snake back and forth across the barren plains and the few vehicles throw up huge clouds of dust. Times, Sunday Times For a day trip to a museum on a barren planet it becomes, let's just say, rather eventful. Times, Sunday Times Samples will be analysed to see if the barren planet could once have sustained life. The Sun The aggressor becomes the victim, the city becomes a barren planet. Times, Sunday Times The last half focuses on earth's future history, where civilizations rise and fall, humans evolve and finally, its end as an old, dying and barren planet. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yet it's the most elemental of islands: a barren rock in the sea, albeit one with silky sand tucked in every crevice along the coast. Times, Sunday Times At first, distant torches awaken the barren rock face of the island. Globe and Mail The higher areas consist of grasslands and barren rock. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Following logging, devastating forest fires swept through the area burning off the shallow organic soils leading to severe soil erosion and barren rock surfaces. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 At first glance, the island seems to be barren rock, devoid of all vegetation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its remoteness and the barren soil proved attractive to those people as the authorities were less likely to bother them in their inhospitable environment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The effort was abandoned due to difficulties farming the sandy barren soil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He described the country as rugged and hilly, with a thin and barren soil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Under this system a cockpit would become a 'largely barren space' with the pilot using a set of virtual controls. Times, Sunday Times Department stores are typically lumbered with barren space that makes little money. Times, Sunday Times The lack of any defining marks from the middle to the background create a desolate, empty and barren space. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Favouring grubby, derelict buildings or barren spaces awaiting refurbishment, its location scouts have inventively expanded the national catalogue of suitable places for art. Times, Sunday Times His case involves an invitation rather than a summons (along with a rejection of rival theories that cast us on very barren terrain, metaphysically speaking). The Times Literary Supplement There are lots of scenes in which weary characters trudge doggedly through barren terrain — and the film itself plods along in much the same fashion. Times, Sunday Times The glacier again retreated 450m ft from 1987 to 2005, leaving barren terrain behind. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Placed at regular intervals, a series of cairns can be used to indicate a path across stony or barren terrain, even across glaciers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Phosphate mining in the central plateau has left a barren terrain of jagged limestone pinnacles up to 15 m high. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It seemed our planet was destined to be a dry and barren wasteland. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 With it went the myth that the modern game must be a barren wasteland of aerial ping pong, interspersed with sporadic outbursts of pick and drive. Times, Sunday Times The beautiful flowers have become thorns, the once-happy landscape now a barren wasteland. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The lumbering operations left behind what has been described as a barren wasteland of stumps and dried treetops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These lumber companies left behind a barren wasteland of stumps and drying treetops that were vulnerable to fire. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 荒芜的 Japanese: 不毛の |
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