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

• He practised the art of earthbound realism.
  他实践生根于土壤的现实主义艺术。
• Having been earthbound for so long you have acquired a strong affinity with Mother Earth, which is why so many of you chosen to stay with her.
  已经与地球纠葛了这么久时间使得你们已经获得了一种与地球母亲的强烈吸引力，这也是为何你们中的这么多人选择了继续伴随她。
• 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。
• Earthbound spirits, my grandmother called them.
  束缚的灵魂，我的祖母这么称他们。
• 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。
• In the meantime, you're an earthbound emanation.
  现在呢，你就是一个一般的。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'm absolutely sure that Brian is still earthbound.
  我有绝对的肯定布莱恩还在这里。
• 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。