barren land
常見例句
- The place used to be a stretch of barren land.
早先這里是一片不毛之地。
《新英漢大辭典》 - Quitesimply Haiti has become a barren land without the resources support itspopulation - and suffers from gross over-population relative to theenvironment.
很簡單,海地成為了一個沒有資源支撐的貧瘠土地,人口過多,與環(huán)境無法協(xié)調(diào)。 - The way of those urban construction workers living on poverty line and those poor rural middle-aged farmers desperately live on sort of barren land ....
那些從事城市建設(shè)的民工們怎樣掙扎在貧困線上,還有那些在貧窮鄉(xiāng)村的中老年農(nóng)民們?nèi)绾谓^望地守著那幾分貧瘠的土地…。 - The Indians are the country's most destitute minority, living on some of its most barren land.
ECONOMIST: Indians versus greens - It is not undeserved: he has succeeded in transforming a barren land into one that has 18, 000 kilometres (11, 400 miles) of tarmac roads and a network of schools and clinics.
ECONOMIST: Botswana - In the opening pages of Cry, the Beloved Country, the poignant novel about a disintegrating Zulu family, Alan Paton depicted the barren land left to the tribe by the late 1940s and, with bitter brevity, described what had befallen the people struggling to survive on it.
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