a barren

基本解释

It's a barren, inhospitable, but beautiful part of the world.
這裡貧瘠而荒涼，但同時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，阿森松島是一個貧瘠的火山結搆殘跡。
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。

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Nuzi文件，如果妻子不能生育,那作爲替代她就要讓自己的女僕爲自己的丈夫生養後代,女族長中四分之三都會出現這種情況,她們飽受不孕的折磨，撒拉、拉結和利亞都是這樣。
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