barren
adj. 荒蕪的; 無用的; 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.
該國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.
他也想用這些水灌溉荒漠。
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.
陳腐盲目的政見
...the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October...
這名選手贏得了10月的東京賽事,終結了長達14個月不勝的魔咒
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...
房間非常簡樸,幾乎沒有任何傢俱和裝飾。
Six stale loaves of brown bread formed a dark blot on the otherwise barren shelves.
6條變質的黑麵包在原本空蕩蕩的架子上堆出了一個黑點兒。
A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies.
He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.
他祈禱自己不孕的妻子有朝一日能懷上寶寶。
...a three-year-old barren mare.
一匹不孕的3歲母馬
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
這些形容詞都含"裸露的"之意。
Excessive exploitation makes the soil barren.
過度開發使這些土地變得貧瘠了.
In the barren tree they might read both their sin and its punishment.
在這棵不結果子的樹上,他們該看出自己的罪和罪的刑罰.
Unbelievably barren soil, but olive trees everywhere.
難以置信的荒蕪土地上卻到處是橄欖樹.
Apparent differences of the phenomenon of ear barren tip were found among genotypes.
果穗禿尖性狀存在著基因型間的差異.
For if dreams go. Life is a barren field. Frozenwith snow.
如果夢想消失了, 生活就變成了積滿冰雪的不毛之地.