It was a very old land, full of enchantment and human sorrow, with its poverty and those useless temples.

这是一片非常古老的土地，充满了魅力和人们的悲伤，以及贫穷和那些无用的寺庙。

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They were the protectors of the useless and ungrateful Parameswara (who was from INDONESIA) who landed in Malacca and claimed that the land belonged to him!

他们是无用和忘恩负义拜里米·苏拉(谁是从印尼的保护者)谁降落在马六甲并声称该土地是属于他！

youdao

Forts were framed for defence against land or sea forces, but useless against an air attack.

建筑城堡是为了防御陆海军入侵，但对于空中打击就无效了。

youdao

Soil on land where trees have been cut down quickly erodes away, rendering it useless, so more land soon has to be cleared.

BBC: Lemur

The land was virtually useless and lacked paved roads, plumbing and electricity.

CNN: 'Protest with a proposal'

Typically this meant plowing money into commodities, land, and other scarce if useless things (such as fine art), on the assumption that investment vehicles definitively limited in supply would hold their value in the context of dollar weakness.

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