In a... desperate land.

在……绝望之地。

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Desperate for land, 3, 000 people live in the reserve, torching forest to clear plots for corn and other crops.

有3000人住在自然保护区内，他们为了土地不惜铤而走险，他们毁林开荒种玉米和其它农作物。

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On this day the land has spoken again: "My child, you look at me a bar!" To trees is dismissive: "no, I will not bow." tree desperate.

这一天土地又发话了：“孩子，你就看我一眼吧！”可大树却不屑一顾：“不行，我不会低头。”大树绝望了。

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Dire poverty still stalks the land and people desperate to feed their families will lay an IED for cash if they cannot farm or find a decent paying job.

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Take Cho Heung Chemical, which leapt into the black in the first half of this year mostly because, having been desperate for cash, it built apartments on land intended for factories, and sold them.

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His proposal is less bellicose and more modest yet more desperate than past claims to the mismarked land.

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