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基本解释

It's a barren, inhospitable, but beautiful part of the world.
这里贫瘠而荒凉，但同时也是世界一部分美丽的所在。
Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.
两百年前，阿森松岛是一个贫瘠的火山结构残迹。
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。

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.
根据Nuzi文件，如果妻子不能生育,那作为替代她就要让自己的女仆为自己的丈夫生养后代,女族长中四分之三都会出现这种情况,她们饱受不孕的折磨，撒拉、拉结和利亚都是这样。
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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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