barrenadj.
贫瘠的；不毛的
not good enough for plants to grow on it
a barren desert
不毛的沙漠
a barren landscape (= one that is empty, with few plants)
寸草不生的荒凉景色
不结果实的
not producing fruit or seeds
不育的；不孕的
not able to produce children or young animals
无益的；无效果的
not producing anything useful or successful
The team will come through this barren patch and start to win again.
这个队将会在经历这段低潮时期之后再创佳绩。
barren
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ADJ-GRADED 荒芜的；缺少植被的；不毛的
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
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ADJ-GRADED 贫瘠的
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。
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ADJ-GRADED 无用的；无益的；无效果的
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
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...a film that would force audiences to confront the barrenness of contemporary life.
一部会迫使观众直面当前空虚生活的电影
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ADJ 空的；没有东西的
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。
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ADJ 不育的；不孕的
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。
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...a ceremony designed to cure women of barrenness.
为治愈妇女不孕举行的仪式
noun
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- an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
- the barrens of central Africa
- the trackless wastes of the desert
- Synonym: waste wasteland
adj
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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
- Synonym: destitute devoid free innocent
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- not bearing offspring
- a barren woman
- learned early in his marriage that he was sterile
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- 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
- Synonym: bare bleak desolate stark
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No crops can be grown on this barren land .
这片贫瘠的土地无法种植庄稼。
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The barren land could produce little food .
那贫瘠的土地几乎不长庄稼。
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The team will come through this barren patch and start to win again .
这个队将会在经历这段低潮时期之后再创佳绩。
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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。
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He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land .
他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。
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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。
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As the leaves of autumn wither and fall , so has my own life become barren .
我的生命就如秋叶般枯萎凋零。
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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。
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That 's probably the most bare , bleak , barren and inhospitable island I 've ever seen .
那可能是我见过的最荒凉的岛屿，荒无人烟，寸草不生。
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She found a small , inexpensive motel on the outskirts of the town ; it was barren and unlovely .
她在城郊找了一家便宜的小汽车旅馆，那旅馆既简陋又难看。
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The place used to be a stretch of barren land .
早先这里是一片不毛之地。
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Only a barren hillside can be seen from the top of this building .
从这栋房子的屋顶只能看到一个光秃秃的山坡。
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The formerly [ once ] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields .
昔日的荒地今天成了良田。
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The barren trees are cut down by the old man .
老人砍了那些不结果的树。
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It was useless to continue such a barren argument .
继续这种毫无结果的争论是无用的。
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The land here is barren and yields poorly .
这里土地瘠薄，作物产量很低。
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In the past few years afforesting the barren hills has been very successful .
几年来绿化荒山已卓有成效。
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Amazing how they have turned a barren hill into an orchard !
想不到他们竟然把一座荒山变成了花果山。
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This used to be a bleak and barren gully .
过去这里是荒凉的穷山沟。
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Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves .
犬儒主义者把世界看成一片荒原，他们的唯一乐趣就是让别人也把世界看成一片不毛之地。
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He clumped after her , up the stairs , into his barren office .
他拖着沉重的步伐跟在她的后面上楼了，走进了他那个空荡荡的诊所
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If I 'm going to a barren , lifeless environment , where the chances of survival are slim to none , I want you there with me .
如果我要前往一个贫瘠无生命，生存几率接近于零的地方时，我希望你在我身旁。
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I rode for hours along dirt trails flanked by bright yellow wildflowers , over steep and rugged2 hills , and past wide fields where farmers struggled to grow anything that would take root in the barren , rocky soil .
我在烂泥路上一骑就是几个小时，翻过一座座陡峭的小山，穿过了一大片贫瘠的沙土地，可以看得出来，农民们费尽了心思把所有可能在这种地上扎根的东西都种过了。
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Practice about treatment of cyanide barren solution using membrane filtration technology
膜过滤技术处理氰化贫液的实践
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Two or three families live on the barren land .
在这块硗瘠的土地上，住着三两户人家。
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Application of Seismic Attribute Technique in Coal Barren Zone Prediction
地震属性技术在预测无煤带中的应用
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No one could raise crops on this barren land .
没人能够在这么贫瘠的土地上种庄稼。
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A few years back you could see nothing but barren land in there .
数年前人们在那儿所能看到的只是荒野。
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Developing Pattern of Soil and Water Conservation in Eroding Barren Hill Resources
侵蚀荒山资源水土保持开发模式分析
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Arab Centre for the Study of Acid Areas and Barren Lands
阿拉伯干旱地区和荒地研究中心
指某处空寂无人的。
That old building now stands completely deserted.
那栋旧楼现在空无一人了。
The streets are deserted at night.
夜里街上寂静无人。
指土地或土壤不肥沃、不长草木的。
No crops can be grown on this barren land.
这片贫瘠的土地无法种植庄稼。
Only a barren hillside can be seen from the top of this building.
从这栋房子的屋顶只能看到一个光秃秃的山坡。
指土地未被人类开发利用过的。
The villagers sold a wild stretch of land.
村民们卖出了一大片荒地。
The wild landscape attracts thousands of tourists.
这片原始风景吸引了数千名游客。
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