But without a lot of federal aid, the town would be desolate.

但如果没有更多的联邦资助，这个小镇可能会就此荒废。

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But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals too numerous for you.

我不在一年之内将他们从你面前撵出去，恐怕地成为荒凉，野地的兽多起来害你。

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Though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall be desolate.

虽有这三人在其中，主耶和华说，我指着我的永生起誓，他们连儿带女都不能得救，只能自己得救，那地仍然荒凉。

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But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

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The 68-square-mile Pinnacles Desert is desolate but for its sentinels--thousands of limestone pillars, most the height of a man, others 20 feet tall, all the progeny of erosion.

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The 68-square-mile Pinnacles Desert is desolate but for its sentinels-thousands of limestone pillars, most the height of a man, others 20 feet tall, all the progeny of erosion.

FORBES: Where the Outback Meets the Sea

The area is still largely industrial and many streets are desolate, but the Hunters Point section is visibly changing.

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