First to colonize the barren land are the lowly lichens, surviving on bare rock.

贫瘠的土地上首先长满了地衣这种低等植物，它们在裸露的岩石上生存。

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Men pray in the barren landscape of Danganari, Niger.

在尼日尔Danganari贫瘠的土地上祈祷的男人们。

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Now the barren river bed is pitted with cracks and subsidence holes.

而现在，干涸的河床布满凹坑，处处是裂缝和孔洞。

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Now,small trees dot the once barren schoolyard of a village elementary school, along with special trash cans for biodegradable waste.

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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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His people are troubled by disaster, plagues, famines, the men die, the women are barren.

他的人民遭受灾难,瘟疫,饥荒,男人性命不保,女人无法生育

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Beside the barren Zeya he heard of the Shilka, where peas, barley and buckwheat grew.

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Time and again she describes walking out onto the barren ice and rocks that surround the northernmost settlements.

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The modern world has not been kind to the tribes scraping a living from the barren fringes of the desert.

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