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.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

黑麦耐贫瘠的酸性土壤。

Rye is tolerant of poor, acid soils.

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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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I have to read these lines again: "And when they list, their lean and flashy songs grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw."

我需要再读一遍这些句子：,“当他们列举出他们贫瘠而浮华的歌颂时“,亦显示出卑鄙无能的低劣之声“

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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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Yet despite the false starts, and the trials, and the years of famine, and the childlessness, and the infertility, the seed of Abraham survives, and the promise is reiterated: "I will go down myself with you to Egypt, and I myself will also bring you back."

但尽管有错误的开始，试验和多年饥荒，断子绝孙和贫瘠，亚伯拉罕的子孙还是得以幸免，许诺被重新申明：,“我要和你同下埃及去，也必定带你上来“

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