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

• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• Living in such a society, they always have the sense of rootless, homeless, and alienated.
  生活在这样的社会当中，他们经常会有一种无根感，无家感和疏离感。
• 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。
• 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。