barren

不毛の、荒れた

土が植物の成長に適さず、草木がほとんど生えない。

やさしい英語で： Having few or no plants because the ground cannot support their growth.

• Nothing grew in the barren soil.
• They crossed a barren stretch of desert.
• Years of drought left the fields barren.

類義語： infertile, unproductive

反対語： fertile

よく使う表現： barren land, barren soil, barren landscape

殺風景な、活気のない

空虚で寂しく、活気や面白み、居心地のよさが乏しい。

やさしい英語で： Empty and dull, with little life, interest, or comfort.

• The room felt cold and barren.
• Pictures made the barren walls more welcoming.
• They tried to brighten the building's barren interior.

類義語： bleak, lifeless, bare

反対語： lively

よく使う表現： barren room, barren interior, barren surroundings

不妊の、子を産めない

子どもを産むことができない。

やさしい英語で： Unable to have children.

• The story describes a barren woman longing for a child.
• The king rejected his barren wife.
• People wrongly assumed she was barren because she had no children.

類義語： infertile, sterile

反対語： fertile

よく使う表現： barren woman, barren wife

低木地、荒原

主に低い木や草が生える広い平地で、高い場所にあることも多い。

やさしい英語で： A broad, often high, flat area where mainly small trees, bushes, and low plants grow.

• Small pines grow across the barrens.
• We picked berries on the upland barrens.
• The pine barrens support many unusual plants.

類義語： scrubland, heathland

よく使う表現： pine barren, upland barren

荒地

植物があまり育たず、住む人も少ない、やせた土地。

やさしい英語で： An area of poor land where few plants grow and few people live.

• They crossed a rocky barren before sunset.
• Few people live in these remote barrens.
• The road ends at the edge of the barrens.

類義語： wasteland, wilderness

よく使う表現： rocky barren, remote barrens