A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
例句
...the country's landscape of high barren mountains.該國(guó)草木稀少的高山地貌
ADJ-GRADED
貧瘠的
Barren land consists of soil that is so poor that plants cannot grow in it.
例句
He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.他也想用這些水灌溉荒漠。
ADJ-GRADED
無(wú)用的；無(wú)益的；無(wú)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.
例句
...politics that are banal and barren of purpose.陳腐盲目的政見(jiàn)...the player, who ended a 14-month barren spell by winning the Tokyo event in October...這名選手贏得了10月的東京賽事，終結(jié)了長(zhǎng)達(dá)14個(gè)月不勝的魔咒
ADJ
空的；沒(méi)有東西的
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.
例句
The room was austere, nearly barren of furniture or decoration...房間非常簡(jiǎn)樸，幾乎沒(méi)有任何家具和裝飾。Six stale loaves of brown bread formed a dark blot on the otherwise barren shelves.6條變質(zhì)的黑面包在原本空蕩蕩的架子上堆出了一個(gè)黑點(diǎn)兒。
ADJ
不育的；不孕的
A barren woman or female animal is unable to have babies.
例句
He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.他祈禱自己不孕的妻子有朝一日能懷上寶寶。...a three-year-old barren mare.一匹不孕的3歲母馬
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children