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

• In the relative and remote structure that regards a family as core, the dissertation discusses father-clan relative relationship, mother-clan relative relationship, function of earthbound and administration, and then deeply understand constitution principle of the Tujia basic society.
  分析了坡脚土家族以家庭为核心的差序格局中，父系亲属关系，母系亲戚关系，地缘与行政关系的功能，从而深化理解土家族基层社会的构成原则。
• As metaphors go, cloud computing sounds nice but is misleading. Clouds are in the sky; server farms are decidedly earthbound.
  云在天上飘，而组成云计算的服务器网络显然是在地面上。
• 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。
• 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。
• The analysis on earthbound methods and circulating of electric-net
  电网接地方式与运行分析
• Earthbound spirits, my grandmother called them.
  束缚的灵魂，我的祖母这么称他们。
• 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。
• Michael Mumma, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, leads the only Earthbound team still gathering the sort of data in which Martian methane has been seen.
  国家航空航天局位于马里兰州的达德太空飞行中心的MichaelMumma，仍然带领着他的务实的团队汇集了已经观测到的火星甲烷的数据。
• In the meantime, you're an earthbound emanation.
  现在呢，你就是一个一般的。
• The earthbound life required no grocery stores, only time gathering edible plants and berries.
  靠土地吃饭的生活不需要杂货店，只需要有时间采集可以食用的植物和浆果。