Barren的意思|Barren的解释-里氏词典

barren ['bærәn]

a. 不育的, 贫瘠的

n. 荒地

[机] 空的, 空白的, 贫瘠的

Nothing can grow in this barren land.
在这块不毛之地上什么也不能生长。
It's useless to continue such a barren argument.
继续这种无聊的争辩是无用的。
Not bearing fruit or offspring; barren.
不结果实的；无效的不产生果实或后代的；不育的

barren

[ noun ]

an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

<noun.location>

the barrens of central Africa

the trackless wastes of the desert

[ adj ]

providing no shelter or sustenance

<adj.all>

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

<adj.all>

a barren woman

learned early in his marriage that he was sterile

completely wanting or lacking

<adj.all>

writing barren of insight

young recruits destitute of experience

innocent of literary merit

the sentence was devoid of meaning

Barren \Bar"ren\ (b[a^]r"ren), a. [OE. barein, OF. brehaing,
fem. brehaigne, baraigne, F. br['e]haigne; of uncertain
origin; cf. Arm. br['e]kha[~n], markha[~n], sterile; LL.
brana a sterile mare, principally in Aquitanian and Spanish
documents; Bisc. barau, baru, fasting.]
1. Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young;
sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

She was barren of children. --Bp. Hall.

2. Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; sterile.
``Barren mountain tracts.'' --Macaulay.

3. Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

Brilliant but barren reveries. --Prescott.

Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter.
--Swift.

4. Mentally dull; stupid. --Shak.

{Barren flower}, a flower which has only stamens without a
pistil, or which has neither stamens nor pistils.

{Barren Grounds} (Geog.), a vast tract in British America
northward of the forest regions.

{Barren Ground bear} (Zo["o]l.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting
the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the
brown bear of Europe.

{Barren Ground caribou} (Zo["o]l.), a small reindeer
({Rangifer Gr[oe]nlandicus}) peculiar to the Barren
Grounds and Greenland.

Barren \Bar"ren\, n.
1. A tract of barren land.

2. pl. Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees,
but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are
not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.]
--J. Pickering.

The road now carries travelers on a rugged five-hour journey in the shadow of the Andes' majestic spine, across the barren and cold altiplano and skirting volcanic cones.
The Caribbean nation, once rich in mahogany forests, is in danger of being reduced to a barren rock by desperately poor people who cut down trees for fuel.
The dry, mostly barren island 10 miles west of Maui has been ravaged by 49 years of conventional bombing by U.S. planes and warships.
In Berlin, several hundred church, environmental and peace activists gathered on Potsdamer Platz, a former main square in pre-war Berlin that was reduced to the barren "death strip" after the Berlin Wall was erected.
Sheep farming, the only agricultural activity the barren, windswept steppes can support, has become a ruinously loss-making business.
The torrid heat long ago boiled away any water that was on the planet, but probes have hinted of vast mountain ranges, towering volcanoes, and barren plains.
But he added: "I'm not pinning my hopes on any individual." Canada reports 14,000 lifeless lakes and 19 barren salmon rivers because of acid rain.
Military dead totaled more than 800,000. A land of remarkable beauty lay ravaged, treeless, burned and barren.
In the worst-hit area, Nakhon Sri Thammarat, many people were killed when mud, logs and trees cascaded down barren hillsides and buried entire villlages.
By acquiring Robins, American Home would add strong consumer brands to its own healthy over-the-counter lines and beef up its proprietary drug research, which has been barren in recent years.
The set is composed of barren earth.
Most of El Alto's inhabitants are country folk, escaping the crushing poverty of the barren Altiplano.
Nearly 1,000m above sea level, on the barren, treeless plateau of the high Andes, the humble houses of Cerro de Pasco cluster around a gaping open-cast pit.
They are angered by the attacks on their homes and most remain determined to resist what they perceive as aggression from the north. Aden is a sprawling town, its population of half a million clustered in and around the barren rocks of ancient volcanoes.
His fields lie barren, his cows and buffaloes are emaciated for lack of fodder, and he has barely enough food for his family.
But today's independent government would like to turn it into a museum with beachside bungalows nearby to attract tourists and their money to this barren, 10-island archipelago in the Atlantic off northwest Africa.
Echeverria never returned to his foundry in the valley of Copiapo, an oasis in the Atacama desert that was the centre of Chile's feverish mining boom 150 years ago. He would not recognise his barren valley today.
The war not only has left 1.3 million people dead and forced at least 5 million into exile but also has created food shortages. Animal breeding has nearly come to a standstill, poultry farms have closed and fields of many farms have been barren for years.
Financial-services companies figure that the way to a customer is through the mailbox, not through TV ads that scatter a message on barren and fertile ground alike.
But the cloudless skies have turned much of their hay, wheat and soybean fields into barren lots of dust.
"In five years, there will be a big city here," said Eliyakim Haetzni, a parliament member for the pro-settlement Tehiya Party as he pointed to the surrounding, barren hills in a sweeping gesture.
Geronte's mansion was barren, and the Le Havre harbour also seemed unnecessarily sombre.
For instance, popular lore holds that the first Mormon pioneers who entered the Salt Lake Valley tamed a harsh, barren desert and made it bloom.
So too, Utopianism has proven brutal and barren.
His house collapsed, as did 95 percent of the homes in his farm village of about 2,400 people set on a dusty, barren plain.
With an almost barren stage, he stressed symbolism, thereby triggering the interpretive productions which have followed.
Machines carve trenches inside the airport and along a barren ridge that overlooks the runway, and is overlooked in turn by mountains where the Moslem fighters wait and occasionally fire rockets at the airport or city.
Each night, a flat and barren stretch of border comes alive with the muffled sound of tires rolling north over the baked earth.
A short distance away, a radar station operated high atop a barren ridge overlooking the highway and two surface-to-air missile sites.
In 1964, Mao Tse-tung hailed the spirit of self-sacrifice in rural Da Zhai county, where peasants turned barren land into a supposedly prosperous commune.

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