Barrenness
['bærənnis]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children.
丹尼斯校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.
整理:利亚
例句/造句/用法:
- In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Some coal mines, advantageously situated, cannot be wrought on account of their barrenness. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The sunshine was not shed on rough barrenness; it fell on soft bloom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It is a proof only of the barrenness of the mines which happened at that time to supply the commercial world. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- It was one of those lovely winter-days which assert the capacity of nature to bestow beauty on barrenness. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He felt full of barrenness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
錄入:赛斯