barren是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 贫瘠的; 不结果实的; 无益的; 无兴趣的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She passed Sal, a complete tomb of sand lying barren and desolate, and went on among the vast coral reefs and athwart the Isle of St. Jacques, with its long chain of basaltic mountains, till she entered the port of Villa Praya and anchored in eight fathoms of water before the town.
-- About two o'clock they came to an immense barren plain, without a sign of vegetation.
-- "Now," went on Paganel, "in all this immense space between this large island and the American coast, there is only one solitary barren little island crossed by the 37th parallel."
-- Glenarvan thought it resembled some glens in the lowlands of Scotland, and Paganel fancied it like some barren parts of Britanny.
-- Nothing could be more barren than this region strewn with pieces of quartz.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christ-mas song it had been a very old song when he was a boy and from time to time they all joined in the chorus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For scores of years gone by, Monseigneur had squeezed it and wrung it, and had seldom graced it with his presence except for the pleasures of the chase now, found in hunting the people; now, found in hunting the beasts, for whose preservation Monseigneur made edifying spaces of barbarous and barren wilderness.
-- 'We were so robbed by that man who stands there, as all we common dogs are by those superior Beings taxed by him without mercy, obliged to work for him without pay, obliged to grind our corn at his mill, obliged to feed scores of his tame birds on our wretched crops, and forbidden for our lives to keep a single tame bird of our own, pillaged and plundered to that degree that when we chanced to have a bit of meat, we ate it in fear, with the door barred and the shut-ters closed, that his people should not see it and take it from 463us I say, we were so robbed, and hunted, and were made so poor, that our father told us it was a dreadful thing to bring a child into the world, and that what we should most pray for, was, that our women might be barren and our miser-able race die out!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Here one of the sorrows of life, in which there is real poetry, gave itself vent; not that barren grief which the poet may only hint at, but never depict in its detail misery and want: that animal necessity, in short, to snatch at least at a fallen leaf of the bread-fruit tree, if not at the fruit itself.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For the summer she had been dragged to her home town, near the Ohio border of Winnemac, a town larger than Martin's Elk Mills but more sun-baked, more barren with little factories.
-- Oh, trust me--" Their profound and unresisted kiss was the more blind in memory of that barren hour with Angus.
-- That was his bridal night and the barren dawn.
-- Barren of her companionship, there would be nothing he wanted to do, nowhere to go.
-- These unfortunate cases he treated, giving the phage to alternate patients, in the somewhat barren almshouse of the parish, a whitewashed cabin the meaner against its vaulting background of banyans and breadfruit trees.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Castor and Pollux with their quiet shine were almost on the meridian: the barren and gloomy Square of Pegasus was creeping round to the north-west; far away through the plantation Vega sparkled like a lamp suspended amid the leafless trees, and Cassiopeia's chair stood daintily poised on the uppermost boughs.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw, with surprise and grief, the leaves decay and fall, and nature again assume the barren and bleak appearance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the lovely moon.
-- I desired that I might pass my life on that barren rock, wearily, it is true, but uninterrupted by any sudden shock of misery.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Our men therefore wandered on the shore to find out some fresh water near the sea, and I walked alone about a mile 99on the other side, where I observed the country all barren and rocky.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So omnipotent is art; which in many a district of New Bedford has superinduced bright terraces of flowers upon the barren refuse rocks thrown aside at creation's final day.
-- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
-- But in pursuit of those far mysteries we dream of, or in tormented chase of that demon phantom that, some time or other, swims before all human hearts; while chasing such over this round globe, they either lead us on in barren mazes or midway leave us whelmed.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Good: But I am not starved, and perishing on a barren place, affording no sustenance.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a flowering out of feelings which had been withering in dry and almost barren soil for many years.
-- To think that all his fine state should be so barren for want of her; that he needed to make such an appeal when she herself was lonely and without anchor.
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