barren

• adj.不毛な; 不毛な; 生産性のない; 採算の取れない; 退屈で面白くない; 空虚な
• n. 不毛の土地
• n.(不毛の)人名;(中英)バロン

語源は不明だが、おそらくbare、裸の、荒涼とした、と同じ。

barren (adj.)

c. 1200, from Old French baraigne, baraing "sterile, barren" (12c.), perhaps originally brahain, of obscure derivation, perhaps from a Germanic language. In England, originally used of women, of land in France. Of land in English from late 14c. As a noun, mid-13c., "a barren woman;" later of land.

BARRENS. Elevated lands, or plains upon which grow small trees, but never timber. [Bartlett, "Dictionary of Americanisms," 1848]

1. He prayed that his barren wife would one day have a child.

彼は不妊の妻がいつか赤ちゃんを妊娠できることを祈っている。

2.He also wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.

彼もこれらの水で砂漠を灌漑しようとした。

3.The room was austere,nearly barren of furniture or decoration.

部屋は非常にシンプルで、家具や装飾はほとんどありません。

4.a waterless barren region

干ばつの荒廃した地域

5.The place used to be a stretch of barren land.

以前はここは不毛の地だった。