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

• 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！
• 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。
• That is the curse of rootless men like Kenyon, who do not understand the real meaning of allegiance and loyalty.
  这是对像凯尼恩这样无根的人的诅咒，他无法理解忠诚和效忠的真正含义。
• Rootless refugeesin a strange country.
  流落陌生国家的难民。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Minute rootless aquatic herbs having globular fronds floating on or near the water surface and bearing one flower per frond.
  微小无根水生植物的一个属，有球形叶，漂浮于水面或生长于水面附近的地方。
• 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）。