Barren

(noun.) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; 'the barrens of central Africa'; 'the trackless wastes of the desert'.

(adj.) completely wanting or lacking; 'writing barren of insight'; 'young recruits destitute of experience'; 'innocent of literary merit'; 'the sentence was devoid of meaning' .

(adj.) not bearing offspring; 'a barren woman'; 'learned early in his marriage that he was sterile' .

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• It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The value of the most barren land is not diminished by the neighbourhood of the most fertile. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The canal extends nearly due south to Suez on the Red Sea, a distance of about 100 miles, through barren wastes of sand and an occasional lake. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Mercantile stock is equally barren and unproductive with manufacturing stock. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Reference to these possible applications is necessary in order that the abstraction may be fruitful, instead of a barren formalism ending in itself. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• We sailed through the barren Archipelago, and into the narrow channel they sometimes call the Dardanelles and sometimes the Hellespont. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To preserve these we had quitted England--England, no more; for without her children, what name could that barren island claim? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She went on, with the discord jarring and jolting through her, in the most barren of misery. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The superior produce of the one class, however, does not, render the other barren or unproductive. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Or put it, my juvenile friends, that he saw an elephant, and returning said 'Lo, the city is barren, I have seen but an eel,' would THAT be Terewth? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Not so much pain now; but I am hopelessly weak, and the state of my mind is inexpressible--dark, barren, impotent. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was strange that she should have chosen to come back and test the full effect of this shapeless, barren ugliness upon herself. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Without a strong artistic tradition, the life and so the politics of a nation sink into a barren routine. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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