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 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。
• 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。
• 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”。
• He became a rootless vagabond.
  他成了一个到处飘泊的流浪者。
• 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。
• Rootless refugeesin a strange country.
  流落陌生国家的难民。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。