barren
adj. 荒芜的; 无用的; 空的; 不育的
A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.
该国草木稀少的高山地貌
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.
他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。
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.
...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.
陈腐盲目的政见
...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
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.
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。
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。
A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies.
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。
...a three-year-old barren mare.
一匹不孕的3岁母马
1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;
1. providing no shelter or sustenance;
2. not bearing offspring;
3. incapable of sustaining life;
bare, naked, bald, barren
这些形容词都含"裸露的"之意。
Excessive exploitation makes the soil barren.
过度开发使这些土地变得贫瘠了.
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.
Unbelievably barren soil, but olive trees everywhere.
难以置信的荒芜土地上却到处是橄榄树.
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.
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.