barren

adj.

1. 贫瘠的；不毛的
   not good enough for plants to grow on it
   1. a barren desert
      不毛的沙漠
   2. a barren landscape (= one that is empty, with few plants)
      寸草不生的荒凉景色
2. 不结果实的
   not producing fruit or seeds
3. 不育的；不孕的
   not able to produce children or young animals
4. 无益的；无效果的
   not producing anything useful or successful
   1. The team will come through this barren patch and start to win again.
      这个队将会在经历这段低潮时期之后再创佳绩。

1. ADJ-GRADED 荒芜的；缺少植被的；不毛的
   A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
   1. ...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.
      该国草木稀少的高山地貌
2. ADJ-GRADED 贫瘠的
   Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.
   1. He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
      他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。
3. ADJ-GRADED 无用的；无益的；无效果的
   If you describe something such as an activity or a period of your life as barren, you mean that you achieve no success during it or that it has no useful results.
   1. ...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.
      陈腐盲目的政见
   2. ...the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October...
      这名选手赢得了10月的东京赛事，终结了长达14个月不胜的魔咒
   3. As the leaves of autumn wither and fall, so has my own life become barren.
      我的生命就如秋叶般枯萎凋零。
4. ADJ 空的；没有东西的
   If you describe a room or a place as barren, you do not like it because it has almost no furniture or other objects in it.
   1. The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration...
      房间非常简朴，几乎没有任何家具和装饰。
   2. Six stale loaves of brown bread formed a dark blot on the otherwise barren shelves.
      6条变质的黑面包在原本空荡荡的架子上堆出了一个黑点儿。
5. ADJ 不育的；不孕的
   A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies.
   1. He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.
      他祈祷自己不孕的妻子有朝一日能怀上宝宝。
   2. ...a three-year-old barren mare.
      一匹不孕的3岁母马

1. That's probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I've ever seen.
   那可能是我见过的最荒凉的岛屿，荒无人烟，寸草不生。
2. He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.
   他也想用这些水灌溉荒漠。
3. As the leaves of autumn wither and fall, so has my own life become barren.
   我的生命就如秋叶般枯萎凋零。
4. The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration
   房间非常简朴，几乎没有任何家具和装饰。
5. Six stale loaves of brown bread formed a dark blot on the otherwise barren shelves.
   6条变质的黑面包在原本空荡荡的架子上堆出了一个黑点儿。
6. He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.
   他祈祷自己不孕的妻子有朝一日能怀上宝宝。
7. She found a small, inexpensive motel on the outskirts of the town; it was barren and unlovely.
   她在城郊找了一家便宜的小汽车旅馆，那旅馆既简陋又难看。
8. The place used to be a stretch of barren land.
   早先这里是一片不毛之地。
9. The formerly [ once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
   昔日的荒地今天成了良田。
10. The land here is barren and yields poorly.
    这里土地瘠薄，作物产量很低。
11. The barren land could produce little food.
    那贫瘠的土地几乎不长庄稼。
12. It was useless to continue such a barren argument.
    继续这种毫无结果的争论是无用的。
13. The barren trees are cut down by the old man.
    老人砍了那些不结果的树。
14. This used to be a bleak and barren gully.
    过去这里是荒凉的穷山沟。
15. Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.
    犬儒主义者把世界看成一片荒原，他们的唯一乐趣就是让别人也把世界看成一片不毛之地。
16. In the past few years afforesting the barren hills has been very successful.
    几年来绿化荒山已卓有成效。
17. Amazing how they have turned a barren hill into an orchard!
    想不到他们竟然把一座荒山变成了花果山。
18. Freshwater and marine resources are increasingly polluted; soils and once-prolific fisheries are growing barren.
    淡水资源和海洋资源日益受到污染；土壤和一度丰富多产的渔场日趋贫瘠。
19. In my barren land you are the final rose.
    在我荒瘠的土地上你是最后的玫瑰。
20. Are one of the most hardy birds, habitat in the northern tundra and boreal forests, and barren mountains and desert.
    是最坚强的鸟类，栖息地北部苔原和寒带森林和荒山和沙漠。
21. People and animals died of heat, rivers dried up, land became barren and forests scorched and burned.
    人与动物死亡的热量，河流干涸，土地成为不毛之地，森林烧焦和焚烧。
22. Not fertile; unproductive or barren.
    不肥沃的不肥沃的；不生产的或贫瘠的。
23. Its dramatic mountains and barren deserts have spewed forth conquerors who ruled North Africa and Spain.
    在它的崇山峻岭和荒凉的沙漠中曾经涌现出统治北非和西班牙的征服者。
24. No one could raise crops on this barren land.
    没人能够在这么贫瘠的土地上种庄稼。
25. One time, my classmates and I went to a barren village.
    有一次，我和同学去了一个贫痔的村庄。
26. They put all their hope in this barren land.
    它们将所有的希望寄托在这片贫瘠的土地上。
27. Land that is desolate, barren, or ravaged.
    荒原荒凉、贫瘠或遭到毁坏之土地。
28. The rest of me is barren too.
    其余的我是光秃秃的了。
29. Unbelievably barren soil, but olive trees everywhere.
    难以置信的荒芜土地上却到处是橄榄树。
30. The barren, inhospitable desert.
    那片贫瘠的、荒凉的沙漠。

  deserted barren wild【导航词义：空寂的，荒芜的】

  deserted adj. 无人居住的

〔辨析〕指某处空寂无人的。

  barren adj. 贫瘠的，荒芜的

〔辨析〕指土地或土壤不肥沃、不长草木的。

  wild adj. 荒凉的，未开垦的

〔辨析〕指土地未被人类开发利用过的。

noun

1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
   1. the barrens of central Africa
   2. the trackless wastes of the desert

   Synonym:    wastewasteland

adj

1. completely wanting or lacking
   1. writing barren of insight
   2. young recruits destitute of experience
   3. innocent of literary merit
   4. the sentence was devoid of meaning

   Synonym:    destitutedevoidfreeinnocent

2. not bearing offspring
   1. a barren woman
   2. learned early in his marriage that he was sterile

3. providing no shelter or sustenance
   1. bare rocky hills
   2. barren lands
   3. the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
   4. the desolate surface of the moon
   5. a stark landscape

   Synonym:    barebleakdesolatestark