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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It needed but this to complete the grim suggestiveness of the barren waste, the chilling wind, and the darkling sky.
-- The barren scene, the sense of loneliness, and the mystery and urgency of my task all struck a chill into my heart.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In short, so rapidly had the sav-age sounds diffused themselves over the barren rock, that it was not difficult for the anxious listeners to imagine they could be heard beneath, as in truth they were above on ev-ery side of them.
-- 'It is easy to know the pathways, and to find the licks and water-courses of the wilderness,' he said; 'but who that saw this spot could venture to say, that a mighty army was at rest among yonder silent trees and barren mountains?'
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That was twenty years before, and now what had been a barren island was a garden.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was this barren spot the desolate refuge of sea-birds, strewn with stones and destitute of vegetation, attached to a more important archipelago?
-- All that part of the island was very barren as far as the point which closed Union Bay, and which had received the name of Cape South Mandible.
-- Now, it was this coast, that is, all the Serpentine Peninsula, that was to be explored, for this part of the shore offered a refuge to castaways, which the other wild and barren side must have refused.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the shell it is fast; in the flesh it is loose; but always has for a kernel a small hard substance, may be a barren egg, may be a grain of sand, around which the pearly matter deposits itself year after year successively, and by thin concentric layers."
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was strange that she should have chosen to come back and test the full effect of this shapeless, barren ugliness upon herself.
-- Monday, the beginning of another school-week!Another shameful, barren school-week, mere routine and mechanical activity.
-- A life of barren routine, without inner meaning, without any real significance.
-- She went on, with the discord jarring and jolting through her, in the most barren of misery.
-- And mind you, I don't care how it is with me I don't care how it is so long as I don't feel " he paused, and a blank, barren look passed over his face, to express his feeling "so long as I feel I've lived, somehow and I don't care how it is but I want to feel that ""Fulfilled," said Birkin.
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