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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• Rootless Position: On Rorty's View of Truth and Its Consequences
  无根的立场&论罗蒂的真理观及其后果
• 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”。
• You reduce both Western Civ and alternative canons to the same deracinated, rootless sort of nature as cultural capital.
  你给予了西方文明和选择性的经典，文化资本一样，孤立漂泊的本质。
• 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。
• 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。
• The theme of Yu's work is the "rootless generation" and the "waking generation" and a criticism of the evils of the eastern and western cultures.
  於梨华小说的创作主题是表现无根的一代和觉醒的一代，同时以批判的态度审视了东西方文化的弊端。