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

• 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。
• We must therefore constantly strengthen our traditional values and virtues of various ethnic communities and avoid becoming rootless duckweeds.
  因此，我们必须不断地加强和巩固各族群的传统价值观和美德，以避免成为无根的浮萍。
• A hornito is a small rootless spatter cone that forms on the surface of a basaltic lava flow ( usually pahoehoe).
  翻译成中文为：熔岩丘是形成于玄武岩熔岩流（通常为绳状熔岩）表面的小型无根溅出锥。
• 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 author believes that, the concept of praxis utopia is rootless.
  作者认为，实践乌托邦是个站不住脚的概念；
• We deeply mourn for all of dead and other victims, but you should take responsibility for your rootless remarks and behaviour!
  我们深深地悼念所有的死者和其他受害者，但是你也要对你毫无根据的评论和行为负责！
• 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。
• The condition is not ripe for rootless vegetables.
  种植无根蔬菜的条件还不成熟。
• Although there are fruitful researches about "India Trilogy", most researchers and critics believed that, for India, Naipaul is alienated in spirit and is a typical example of" rootless "people.
  而今关于印度三部曲的研究已是硕果累累，大部分研究者和评论者都认为，对于印度，奈保尔在精神上是疏离的，他是典型的无根人。
• 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。