fruitless
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈfɹuːtləs/
美 /ˈfɹutləs/|/ˈfɹʉːtləs/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Bearing no fruit; barren.
— [S]he [Rachel Carson] also warned of falls in which "there was no pollination and there would be no fruit." […] The entomologist Stephen L. Buchmann and the crop ecologist Gary Paul Nabhan amplified Carson's warning in their 1996 book, The Forgotten Pollinators. They predicted fruitless falls unless our land-use patterns changed fast. But few people paid attention.
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Unproductive, useless.
— The unskilled man’s attempt at fixing his car engine was fruitless.Fanny Hill
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Of a person: unable to have children; barren, infertile.
— The fruitless woman desperately wanted to have children.
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Of a diet, etc.: without fruit.
— The first fruits of the season were eagerly sought after, and everybody was thankful that once more dread winter with its unvarying monotony of fruitless meals was a thing of the past.
词汇关系
词源
Inherited from Middle English fruytles; equivalent to fruit + -less. Compare Middle English withouten fruyt (“fruitless”, literally “without fruit”).
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