barren land
不毛之地,贫瘠的土地,荒芜的土地,贫瘠的土地上
Definitions
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- : a sparsely inhabited region of tundra in N Canada, especially in the area W of Hudson Bay.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.
But for me, this admittance of uncertainty and doubts grounds Serial in reality.
He'd kept the few offices at the front of the bungalow, now oddly barren.
By 27 September, there were 1,400 people in the grounds of the embassy, creating a small humanitarian crisis.
Though this might easily have been grounds for dismissal or reassignment, nothing of the sort happened.
The tea was all laid on tables in the garden, and the sausages were cooking over a fire made on the grounds.
He has taken down its fences, and "boulevarded" its grounds till it merges into those of his neighbors.
I've seen him prowling about the grounds: and the night of the marriage he was mounted up at the chapel window.
He was hurrying towards the corner of the palace grounds when a shriek from Winifred set his teeth on edge.
But for the trees, these sullen skies and level grounds would render England dreary enough.