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基本解釋

It's a barren, inhospitable, but beautiful part of the world.
這裡貧瘠而荒涼，但同時(shí)也是世界一部分美麗的所在。
Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.
兩百年前，阿森松島是一個(gè)貧瘠的火山結(jié)搆殘跡。
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(wèi)了一個(gè)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)。

In bad times, the desert turns into a barren wasteland, challenging the survival skills of even the hardiest of people and their animals.
Also according to the Nuzi texts, if a wife is barren, she is to provide a maidservant as a substitute to bear her husband's children. And this is something that happens with three out of the four matriarchs, who are afflicted with infertility: Sarah, Rachel and Leah.
根據(jù)Nuzi文件，如果妻子不能生育,那作爲(wèi)替代她就要讓自己的女僕爲(wèi)自己的丈夫生養(yǎng)後代,女族長中四分之三都會(huì)出現(xiàn)這種情況,她們飽受不孕的折磨，撒拉、拉結(jié)和利亞都是這樣。
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"Waziristan is full of narrow valleys and barren mountains and it's a God-given country for any guerilla to fight in,".

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