barren land
常见例句
- The place used to be a stretch of barren land.
早先这里是一片不毛之地。
《新英汉大辞典》 - Quitesimply Haiti has become a barren land without the resources support itspopulation - and suffers from gross over-population relative to theenvironment.
很简单,海地成为了一个没有资源支撑的贫瘠土地,人口过多,与环境无法协调。 - 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 ....
那些从事城市建设的民工们怎样挣扎在贫困线上,还有那些在贫穷乡村的中老年农民们如何绝望地守着那几分贫瘠的土地…。 - 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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