Where Terracottem sits, barren plots of land are now fertile, and have already changed lives.

在考氏土壤存在的地区，贫瘠的土地变得肥沃，人们的生活发生了改变。

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The Northern Shaanxi Folk Songs attribute its birth to the barren yellow plateau, adverse environmental circumstances, unstable lives, and the mergence of ethnic groups.

贫瘠的黄土高原，恶劣的自然环境，动荡不安的生活现实，人种血缘的融合重组，造就了神奇的陕北民歌。

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I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become.

我只知道记忆与我同在，将美好的往事完美地浓缩起来，如同一笔浓墨重彩，涂抹在我们那已经变得灰白单调的生活画布上。

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