Sterile

(adj.) deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention; 'a sterile ideology lacking in originality'; 'unimaginative development of a musical theme'; 'uninspired writing' .

(adj.) incapable of reproducing; 'an infertile couple' .

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• The bitter waters of life surged high about him, their sterile taste was on his lips. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The subject well deserves to be discussed at great length, but I will here take only a single case, that of working or sterile ants. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• As soon as government begins to supply services, it is turning away from the sterile tyranny of the taboo. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same condition as in the most sterile hybrids. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• That is why their issues are so sterile; that is why the absorption in next steps is a diversion from statesmanship. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In a strangely indifferent, sterile way, he was frightened. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Assuredly, this stall of Silas Wegg's was the hardest little stall of all the sterile little stalls in London. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My present feelings are so mingled with the past, that I cannot say whether the knowledge of this change visited us, as we stood on this sterile spot. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• First crosses between forms, sufficiently distinct to be ranked as species, and their hybrids, are very generally, but not universally, sterile. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.

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