sterile
/ˈstɛɹəl/ 形容词 C2中文： 不孕的、贫瘠的、无菌的、不生育的
- Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
- Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
- Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
- Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms. · a sterile kitchen table
- Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
- Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
- Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
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A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.
These sterile corporate apologies usually ring false, exacerbating the original grievance by insulting the intelligence of the affected stakeholders.
The implications of these psychological findings resonate far beyond the sterile confines of the laboratory, carrying particularly immense weight within the judicial system.
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