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早先这里是一片不毛之地。 The place used to be a stretch of barren land. | ||
我们要把这块不毛之地改成麦田。 We shall turn this piece of wasteland into wheat fields. | ||
他能把大片不毛之地变回沃土。 He was able to bring large sterile acreages back to fertility. | ||
最后，宇宙将变成一个冰凉的、死亡的不毛之地。 Eventually it will become a cold, dead wasteland with a temperature approaching what scientists term "absolute zero". | ||
草地没有看上去苍翠繁茂，鲜花盛开，反而变成了不毛之地。 The meadows, instead of looking lush and strewn with flowers, are now actually rather arid. | ||
列车爬过长着青草的山坡出了乌兰巴托，风景很快变成了戈壁沙漠的不毛之地。 The grassy hills we climbed on our way out of Ulan Bator soon gave way to the much harsher, more arid landscape of the Gobi Desert. | ||
在中太平洋的坎顿岛附近，一只绿海龟滑过一片死珊瑚的不毛之地。 A green turtle glides over a wasteland of dead coral near Kanton island in the central Pacific. | ||
为避免地球的业主们与宇宙的其他社群接触，我们的星球被困在银河系远郊三四流的不毛之地。 To keep Earth inhabitants away from the rest of the universe community, our planet was stuck way out in the boondocks at the rim of a second-rate galaxy. | ||
相反，嶋崎的生菜地遍布山坡，假使其他的地主同意转让那些不毛之地，他公司TopRiver的业绩会大大增长。 In contrast, Mr Shimazaki's lettuces spread across hillsides, and his business, Top River, could grow far more if only other landowners would let out unproductive land. | ||
伊万诺维奇是一名生活在偏远的俄罗斯亚马尔半岛的驰鹿游牧民。亚马尔半岛位于西伯利亚西北，是北极冻原上一片广阔荒凉的不毛之地。 Ivanovich is one of a group of nomadic reindeer herders who live in Russia's remote Yamal peninsula, a vast wilderness of frozen tundra in north-west Siberia. | ||
