Front | barren |
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Pron | ['bærən] |
Back | 【BARREN】 The barren land could produce little food. 这块贫瘠的土地只能生产些微的食物。 【重点词汇】 barren adj. 贫瘠的 同: sterile |
Vocab | barrencompletely wanting or lacking
Drive through a forest that's just been destroyed by a fire, and you'll get an idea of what barren means — stripped of vegetation and devoid of life. Not to be confused with a baron, a kind of nobleman, barren is often used to describe an area of land that lacks any signs of life. A barren wilderness is dry and empty, with no foliage or twittering birds to be found. An old-fashioned and unflattering word for a woman who is unable to have children is barren. All forms of 'barren' will appear on average once every 395 pages. barren barrenness |
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