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

• 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）。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• The third resource of rootless is prisoner dilemma. People struggled against to the space experience.
  第三种空间的无根体验是囚徒困境。在这些体验下，人们对无根命运予以反抗。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。