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

• He is no Tony Blair, ideologically rootless, as I had previously suspected.
  与我之前的猜想不同，他不是思想飘忽不定的托尼•布莱尔（TonyBlair）。
• The rootless seedling with rootage powder treatment could improve survival rate obviously, but with weak growing condition, even cultured in humus.
  生根粉处理无根苗后，在珍珠岩中栽培成活率有明显提高，植株长势较差，在腐殖土中栽培成活率及植株长势没有明显变化。
• The riffraff time deconstructs the 'Eros': it expels the 'Eros' and remains the 'desire', moreover, the rootless education neutralizes the virtues and values.
  群氓时代解构了爱欲：驱逐了爱保留了欲，无根基的教育中立了德性、价值。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• A major characteristic of life in diaspora is rootless.
  流散生活的一个主要特点就是无根性。
• Thus, the construction and "the hope" of their communicative theories would become a dream of rootless "Utopia".
  因而，其交往理论的建构及展望变成为“无根”的“乌托邦”梦想。
• 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。
• 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。