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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Rootless refugeesin a strange country.
  流落陌生国家的难民。