earthbound

英 [ˈɜːθbaʊnd]

美 [ˈɜːrθbaʊnd]

adj.  (只在)地球上的，陆地的，地面上的; 世俗的; 物质世界的; 缺乏想象力的

BNC.34052 / COCA.19899

牛津词典

adj.

• （只在）地球上的，陆地的，地面上的
  unable to leave the surface of the earth
  1. birds and their earthbound predators
     鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
• 世俗的；物质世界的；缺乏想象力的
  not spiritual or having much imagination

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 不能离开地面的；陆地上的；地面上的
  If something isearthbound, it is unable to fly, or is on the ground rather than in the air or in space.
  1. ...earthbound telescopes...
     地面望远镜
  2. The earthbound larvae from which they develop are less pretty, but just as predatory.
     幼虫生活在地面上，不像成虫后那么美丽，但是同样会捕食。
• ADJ-GRADED 缺乏想象力的
  If you describe someone or something asearthbound, you mean that they do not have very much imagination.
  1. ...the daughter of a stolid, earthbound salesman and a wild actress.
     冷漠实际的推销员和生活放荡的女演员所生的女儿

英英释义

adj

• confined to the earth
• lacking wit or imagination
  1. a pedestrian movie plot
  Synonym:pedestrianprosaicprosy

双语例句

• It orbits the sun behind the Earth and in theory should be able to spot things that Earthbound telescopes and even the orbiting Hubble telescope cannot.
  开普勒跟随地球围绕太阳运转，从理论上来讲它可以发现地面天文望远镜甚至于哈勃望远镜所不能发现的东西。
• On the whole it was an uninspired and earthbound performance.
  总的来说，这是场没有激情的平淡的演出。
• Rediscovery about Earthbound China
  新乡土建筑乡土中国的再发现
• You see, unlike our clunky earthbound forms of construction.
  你看，比起地球上使用的笨拙建筑方式。
• He practised the art of earthbound realism.
  他实践生根于土壤的现实主义艺术。
• Whereas, basic reasons of crimes with floating population are the loss of earthbound order existing in floating population in urban and the loss of the expectancy of surviving and developing of floating population.
  流动人口犯罪的基础性原因是存在于流动人口群体中的乡土秩序在城市中的失落，以及由此而产生的流动人口生存与发展预期的落空。
• Indeed the structures of flight vehicles are very flexible when compared with bridges, buildings, and earthbound machines.
  实际上，与桥梁、建筑和地面上的机器相比，飞行器结构是非常灵活的。
• No, these aren't deleted scenes from sci-fi epic Avatar-these spectacular images show mesmerising phosphorescent patterns swirling through a forest that are all produced by earthbound insects.
  这些精美森林照片显示梦幻般的荧光散布在森林之中，但这些壮观美丽的图像并不是科幻电影《阿凡达》中的删节片段，画面中的荧光物质居然是由萤火虫释放的。
• The space shuttle remained earthbound because of a technical fault.
  由于技术错误，航天飞机仍不能离地。
• Earthbound prices are returning many markets to "fair value", defined as the long-run average ratio of house prices to disposable income and to rents.
  低房价正使许多市场回归“公允价值”，公允价值是以房价与收入和租金的长期平均比值衡量。