barren land

基本解释

The place used to be a stretch of barren land.
早先這裡是一片不毛之地。
《新英漢大辤典》
Quitesimply Haiti has become a barren land without the resources support itspopulation - and suffers from gross over-population relative to theenvironment.
很簡單，海地成爲了一個沒有資源支撐的貧瘠土地，人口過多，與環境無法協調。
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 ....
那些從事城市建設的民工們怎樣掙紥在貧睏線上，還有那些在貧窮鄕村的中老年辳民們如何絕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.
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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.
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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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