Sterile
['steraɪl] or ['stɛrəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; 'a sterile ideology lacking in originality'; 'unimaginative development of a musical theme'; 'uninspired writing' .
(adj.) incapable of reproducing; 'an infertile couple' .
卡洛斯錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
(a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
(a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
(a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. Barren, unfruitful, fruitless, unproductive, unprolific, infecund, addle, ACARPOUS, jejune, poor.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Barren, unfruitful, unproductive, desert, infertile
ANT:Fruitful, fertile, productive, luxuriant, exuberant, cultivated
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解釋/意思:
adj. unfruitful: barren: (bot.) producing no pistil or no spores: destitute of ideas or sentiment.—n. Sterilisā′tion act of sterilising.—v.t. Ster′ilise to cause to be fruitless: to destroy bacteria or other micro-organisms in.—ns. Ster′iliser anything which sterilises; Steril′ity quality of being sterile: unfruitfulness barrenness in regard to reproduction.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The bitter waters of life surged high about him, their sterile taste was on his lips. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- As soon as government begins to supply services, it is turning away from the sterile tyranny of the taboo. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- That is why their issues are so sterile; that is why the absorption in next steps is a diversion from statesmanship. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In a strangely indifferent, sterile way, he was frightened. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Assuredly, this stall of Silas Wegg's was the hardest little stall of all the sterile little stalls in London. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- My present feelings are so mingled with the past, that I cannot say whether the knowledge of this change visited us, as we stood on this sterile spot. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- First crosses between forms, sufficiently distinct to be ranked as species, and their hybrids, are very generally, but not universally, sterile. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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