| 词汇 | barren |
| 释义 | barren adjective uk /ˈbær.ən/ us /ˈber.ən/ unable to produce plants or fruit: 贫瘠的;不毛的 We drove through a barren, rocky landscape.我们开车经过一个到处是岩石的不毛之地。 formal unable to have children or young animals不妊的，不育的 not creating or producing anything new: 无成果的；无效果的 She became very depressed during the barren years when she was unable to paint.在无法作画、作品匮乏的那几年里，她变得非常消沉。 Compare fertile(IMAGINATION) Fertile or infertile land barrenly barrenness bottomland bread basket cultivable fertile fertility granary hardscrabble hospitable hostile luscious lush lushly sterile uncropped uncultivable uncultivated unfertile unfertilized You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Plant reproduction Animal reproduction Unsuccessful (people and things) Related wordbarrenness barren | American Dictionarybarren adjective us/ˈbær·ən/ (of land) not producing or unable to produce plants: The landscape was barren, with not a tree or shrub in sight. old use If a woman is barren, she is unable to have a baby. Examples of barrenbarren The large grasslands and barrens are dominated by scattered jack pine, red pine, scrub oak, and quaking aspen trees. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The park is a 260acre km2 nature preserve, comprising wetlands, ponds, sand barrens, spring-fed streams, and woodlands. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Open barrens are now rare and imperiled globally, as suppression of wildfires has allowed larger climax forest vegetation to take over in most one-time barrens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The northern part of the county is known as the barrens, named by the early settlers for the lack timber there. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In some areas it produces natural blueberry barrens, where it is practically the only species covering large areas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Grasslands and barrens have replaced previously forested areas leading to greater soil erosion. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The plant grows in sandhills, pine barrens and dry, sandy woods. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Outwash from the last of numerous glacial periods left thick glacial deposits of sand and gravel, providing the geologic foundation for globally rare pine barrens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The habitat consists of dry, rocky, or sandy areas, including pine barrens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The sea urchins then overexploited their main food source, kelp, creating urchin barrens, areas of seabed denuded of kelp, but carpeted with urchins. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The bedrock is covered by glaciolacustrine deposits which make up the sandy topsoils of the barrens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ground is bedrock or shale barrens littered with loose rock and fine soils. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Salt-aected soils lying barren earlier, now contribute nearly 6 6 106 t food grains from 1.5 6 106 ha reclaimed area. Our f lowers were beautiful, the only adornment in that barren room. Sea urchins, for example, can reduce entire areas to urchin barrens. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of barren These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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