他想用该水来灌溉贫瘠的沙漠土地。

He wants to use the water to irrigate barren desert land.

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由于土地贫瘠而无法耕作。

The poorness of the land makes farming impossible.

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他们租了一些贫瘠的土地，开始种树。

They rented some poor land and began to plant trees.

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Land being the cultivated manicured place that provides, whatever, the harvest, things like that while wilderness was some place that was barren, it does not produce fruit.

土地被人们开垦，培育,为人们提供丰收的果实,荒野却是贫瘠的，不会产生果实。

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