barren是什么意思_barren怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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"

not bearing offspring;"a barren woman"
"learned early in his marriage that he was sterile"

completely wanting or lacking;"writing barren of insight"
"young recruits destitute of experience"
"innocent of literary merit"
"the sentence was devoid of meaning"

中英词源

barren 贫瘠的

词源不详，可能同bare, 裸露的，荒凉的。

barren (adj.): c. 1200, from Old French baraigne, baraing "sterile, barren" (12c.), perhaps originally brahain, of obscure derivation, perhaps from a Germanic language. In England, originally used of women, of land in France. Of land in English from late 14c. As a noun, mid-13c., "a barren woman;" later of land.
BARRENS. Elevated lands, or plains upon which grow small trees, but never timber. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]

词态变化

名词 barrenness;

权威造句

1. 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。

2. He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.: 他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。

3. 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。

4. a waterless barren region: 干旱的荒芜地区

5. The place used to be a stretch of barren land.: 早先这里是一片不毛之地.

近反义词

dry

fruitless

unfruitful

unproductive

相似短语

barren of adj.没有...的

barren zone 贫瘠带

barren ground 不含矿物的岩层

barren liquor 贫液

pine barren 松林泥炭地

barren spot 空斑空层

barren land 荒地

barren sow 阉母猪

barren of seed 不结枝

barren field 无油气地区

单词分析

这些形容词都含“裸露的”之意。
bare指缺少必要的遮盖物。用于人时，多指身体的部分裸露。
naked指全身一丝不挂，暴露无遗。
bald指头上无发，山坡无树无草，树顶无叶。
barren着重缺少肥力或生活能力，无草无木，荒瘠不毛。

记忆方法

1. 经常泡bar，变成 bar 人，而不孕不育.
2. bare => barren (去e然后双写r加-en).
3. 赤裸的、光秃秃的什么都没有，当然就很贫瘠的、不毛的、荒芜的、不生育的。
4. barren 贫瘠 “拜伦生活在一块贫瘠的山地上”

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