The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.

这块土地不够肥沃， 不值得耕种。

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She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.

她说，大自然提供的物质与服务，比如清洁空气、雨水和肥沃的土壤，不应被认为是当然的存在。

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For much of the 19th century the two countries had similar potential, not least in an abundance of empty, fertile land to be taken over by European immigrants.

在19世纪很长一段时间内，两国除了有大量空白、肥沃的土地即将被欧洲移民霸占，还有着相同的发展潜力。

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For potatoes, the best soil is fertile and well drained,not wet.

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She says that the goods and services provided by nature - like clean air, rain or fertile soils - should not be taken for granted.

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There was suffering but not fertile ground for a compelling economic growth argument from Dole-Kemp.

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"Girls were not encouraged to participate in sport because there were all these different type of myths: you're not going to be fertile, you're not going to get married one day, you're not going to have the so-called happy ending that would make any mother proud, " Shapinga says.

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She was genuinely puzzled that Thatcherism did not find more fertile ground north of the border.

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