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

• 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。
• Minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond.
  微小无根水生植物的一个属，有球形叶，漂浮于水面或生长于水面附近的地方。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• The third resource of rootless is prisoner dilemma. People struggled against to the space experience.
  第三种空间的无根体验是囚徒困境。在这些体验下，人们对无根命运予以反抗。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。