[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]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 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]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 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]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.
[oft ADJ of n]
[WRITTEN 笔语]
...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
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。
barrenness
...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 形容词]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.
[oft ADJ of n]
[disapproval]
[WRITTEN 笔语]
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。
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[ADJ 形容词]不育的；不孕的 A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies.
[OLD-FASHIONED 过时]
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
barrenness
...a ceremony designed to cure women of barrenness.
为治愈妇女不孕举行的仪式
Oxford
bar·ren/ˈbærən; NAmEˈbærən/adjective1(of land or soil 土地或土壤)not good enough for plants to grow on it 贫瘠的；不毛的◆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2(of plants or trees 花草树木)not producing fruit or seeds 不结果实的SYN
infertile
3( old-fashionedorformal) (of women or female animals 女人或雌性动物)not able to produce children or young animals 不育的；不孕的SYN
infertile
4[usually before noun ]not producing anything useful or successful 无益的；无效果的◆The team will come through this barren patchand start to win again. 这个队将会在经历这段低潮时期之后再创佳绩。▶bar·ren·ness/ˈbærənnəs; NAmEˈbærənnəs/noun[uncountable ]barrenbarrenerbarrenestbar·ren/ˈbærən; NAmEˈbærən/bar·ren·ness/ˈbærənnəs; NAmEˈbærənnəs/
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barrenbar‧ren /ˈbærən/ ●○○ adjective
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1land or soil that is barren has no plants growing on it: Thousands of years ago the surface was barren desert.2 old-fashioned unable to produce children or baby animals – used of a woman or of female animalsSYN infertileOPP fertile3a tree or plant that is barren does not produce fruit or seeds4used to describe something that does not look interesting or attractive: The sports hall was a rather barren concrete building.5used to describe a period of time during which you do not achieve anything or get any useful results: I scored five in the first seven games, but I’ve had a bit of a barren patch since then.
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