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land-poor

/land-poor/US // ˈlændˌpʊər //

贫地,贫瘠的土地,土地贫乏,缺少土地

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : in need of ready money while owning much land.

Examples

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • For every nanosecond that I miraculously lift off the ground, I land with an inordinately loud thud.

  • If so, he has his silence -- on top of poor judgment -- to blame.

  • But most likely it was linked to the way priests identify with the poor in the face of government and criminal abuses.

  • What they actually mean by that is, you know, he actually knows some people that are poor.

  • Poor Squinty ran and tried to hide under the straw, for he knew the boy was talking about him.

  • He did believe you, more or less, and what you said fell in with his own impressions—strange impressions that they were, poor man!

  • Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.

  • In withdrawing aside sorrow remaineth: and the substance of the poor is according to his heart.

  • It is a lofty and richly-decorated pile of the fourteenth century; and tells of the labours and the wealth of a foreign land.