rootless

英 [ˈruːtləs]

美 [ˈruːtləs]

adj.  无根的; 没有归宿的; 漂泊的

BNC.24290 / COCA.28366

牛津词典

adj.

• 无根的；没有归宿的；漂泊的
  having nowhere that you really think of as home, or as the place where you belong
  1. She had had a rootless childhood moving from town to town.
     她小时候居无定所，在各地流浪。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 居无定所的;无固定工作的;无归属的;漂泊的
  If someone has no permanent home or job and is not settled in any community, you can describe them asrootless.
  1. These rootless young people have nowhere else to go.
     这些漂泊不定的年轻人没有其他地方可去。
  2. ...people who refused to integrate within society and instead lived rootless, jobless lives.
     那些不愿意融入社会而过着漂泊不定、没有工作的生活的人

英英释义

adj

• wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community
  1. led a vagabond life
  2. a rootless wanderer
  Synonym:vagabond

双语例句

• When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless". We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.
  一粒微小的玫瑰花籽被植入土壤时，我们并不因它“无根无茎”而加以批评。我们把它当做一粒种子来对待，施与它所需的水分和养料。
• When we plant a rose in earth, we notice it is small but we don't criticize it as "rootless and stemless".
  当我们把一粒玫瑰花籽植入土壤里时，我们注意到它是微小的，但是我们并不苛责它是“无根无茎的”。
• I sat on our scratchy brick stoop, dangling my legs off the edge, feeling as rootless as I've ever felt.
  我在砖面粗糙的门廊上坐下，双脚悬荡着，一种前所未有的无根感涌上心头。
• That is the curse of rootless men like Kenyon, who do not understand the real meaning of allegiance and loyalty.
  这是对像凯尼恩这样无根的人的诅咒，他无法理解忠诚和效忠的真正含义。
• Conrad is forever a rootless wanderer, loafing on the periphery of different cultures.
  他是一个无根的流浪者，徘徊于不同的文化边缘。
• Researchers think that humble algae, which are simple, rootless plants that normally provide food for aquatic animals, could lead be a revolutionary tool in the battle against climate change.
  研究人员认为，这种简单、无根的微型藻类植物通常只是水生动物的食品，但是现在却变成了对抗气候变化的一个革命性工具。
• These rootless young people have nowhere else to go.
  这些漂泊不定的年轻人没有其他地方可去。
• This paper, by comparing scenes in traditional novels with those in modern novels, is intended to interpret the inquiry into rooted spirits and the quest for rootless souls in the description of scene, and to discuss what is culturally implied in it.
  拟通过对传统和现代小说中场景描写的对比，阐释场景描写中有根的精神探寻和无根的灵魂追问，并就渗透于其中的文化精神进行讨论。
• Therefore, it is imperative for Singapore to ensure that cultures of East and West complement each other for its own good, since a "rootless" society would be in great peril.
  东西文化的相互配合是目前新加坡社会的一个重要课题，没有根的社会是极为危险的。
• Not so long ago they conducted a protest, also in Kiev, against such a groundless and rootless flackery for swine flu epidemy in Ukraine.
  不久前，他们进行了抗议，也是在基辅，是针对猪流感毫无根据和无根据地在乌克兰蔓延扩散。