land-poor
贫地,贫瘠的土地,土地贫乏,缺少土地
Definitions
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- : 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.