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

• Therefore, it is imperative for Singapore to ensure that cultures of East and West complement each other for its own good, since a "rootless" society would be in great peril.
  东西文化的相互配合是目前新加坡社会的一个重要课题，没有根的社会是极为危险的。
• 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。
• When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless". We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.
  一粒微小的玫瑰花籽被植入土壤时，我们并不因它“无根无茎”而加以批评。我们把它当做一粒种子来对待，施与它所需的水分和养料。
• 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。
• You reduce both Western Civ and alternative canons to the same deracinated, rootless sort of nature as cultural capital.
  你给予了西方文明和选择性的经典，文化资本一样，孤立漂泊的本质。
• 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。
• 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）。
• A major characteristic of life in diaspora is rootless.
  流散生活的一个主要特点就是无根性。
• 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。
• Rootless refugeesin a strange country.
  流落陌生国家的难民。