Barren

['bær(ə)n] or ['bærən]

解释:

(noun.) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; 'the barrens of central Africa'; 'the trackless wastes of the desert'.

(adj.) completely wanting or lacking; 'writing barren of insight'; 'young recruits destitute of experience'; 'innocent of literary merit'; 'the sentence was devoid of meaning' .

(adj.) not bearing offspring; 'a barren woman'; 'learned early in his marriage that he was sterile' .

校对:杜鲁门--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

(a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.

(a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.

(a.) Mentally dull; stupid.

(n.) A tract of barren land.

(n.) 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.

詹妮校对

同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Unprolific, incapable of bearing offspring, not prolific.[2]. Unfertile, fruitless, unproductive, sterile, ACARPOUS.[3]. Scanty, not copious.

录入:索尔

同义词及反义词：

[See STERILE]

手打:洛伊斯

解释:

adj. incapable of bearing offspring: unfruitful: dull stupid: unprofitable (with of).—adj. Bar′ren-beat′en.—adv. Bar′renly.—n. Bar′renness.—adjs. Bar′ren-spir′ited; Bar′ren-wit′ted.

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