Nearly 80% of the land is officially classed as arid, and people have adapted over centuries to living with little water.
近80%的土地被官方分类为旱地，几个世纪以来人们已经适应只靠一点点水度日的生活。
People here survived off small farms hewed from the mountainsides at an altitude of 11,000 feet, and dividing property among several sons would leave each with too little land to feed a family.
这里的人们靠从海拔3300米山坡上开垦的小块土地为生，把田产分给几个儿子，谁都无法养家糊口。
In economy, lots of land was overgrown with weeds and there were so little people, the economy was depressing.
经济上，全国许多地区土地荒芜，人烟稀少，经济萧条。
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