That's probably the most bare, bleak, barren and inhospitable island I've ever seen.
那可能是我见过的最光秃、最荒凉、最贫瘠和最不适合居住的岛屿。
First to colonize the barren land are the lowly lichens, surviving on bare rock.
贫瘠的土地上首先长满了地衣这种低等植物,它们在裸露的岩石上生存。
The formerly [once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
昔日的荒地今天成了良田。
Then, as blazing sunshine alternated with drenching rains, the harsh, barren surfaces of the black rocks slowly began to soften.
然后,随着炽热的阳光和滂沱的大雨交替出现,黑色岩石粗糙而贫瘠的表面开始慢慢软化。
But only those few spores that settle down in very favorable locations can start a new life; the vast majority fall on barren ground.
但只有那些降落在非常有利位置的孢子才能开始新的生活;绝大多数的孢子降落在贫瘠的土地上。
When plants first made the transition ashore more than 400 million years ago, the land was barren and desolate, inhospitable to life.
4亿多年前,植物第一次向海岸上迁移时,陆地上荒凉而贫瘠,并非生命宜居之地。
She found a small, inexpensive motel on the outskirts of the town; it was barren and unlovely.
她在镇郊找了一个又小又便宜的汽车旅馆,设施不全也不好看。
For example, G10 garnets, a type of garnet typically found in diamond-rich pipes, are lower in calcium and higher in chrome than garnets from barren pipes.
例如,G10石榴石,一种通常发现于富含钻石的管道中的石榴石,与无钻石管道中的石榴石相比,其钙含量较低,铬含量较高。
For years this land remained barren and isolated.
这片土地多年来荒芜贫瘠、与世隔绝。
Men pray in the barren landscape of Danganari, Niger.
在尼日尔Danganari贫瘠的土地上祈祷的男人们。
All the houses, fences, and barren trees had new shapes.
所有的房屋、栅栏还有光秃秃的树木都换了新颜。
Mr Bing's office sits high above Detroit's barren streets.
Bing先生的办公室位于底特律空荡荡的街道的上面。
But, we have just learned in chapter 11 that Sarai is barren.
但是,我们刚学了第11章说撒莱不能生育。
Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.
两百年前,阿森松岛是一个贫瘠的火山结构残迹。
Now the barren river bed is pitted with cracks and subsidence holes.
而现在,干涸的河床布满凹坑,处处是裂缝和孔洞。
Within a few years they had transferred barren wastes into fertile fields.
几年之内他们就把荒地变成了良田。
He traveled homeward through a region made barren by drought and dust storms.
他穿过一片由干旱和沙暴造成的荒凉不毛的地区。
Cancer rates have dropped off, and some brush has returned to once-barren hills.
癌症发病率出现了下降,一度贫瘠的山上重新长出了一些植被。
Beside the barren Zeya he heard of the Shilka, where peas, barley and buckwheat grew.
在贫瘠的结雅河边他听说有一条石勒喀河,那里生长着豌豆、大麦和荞麦。
"Where there is bauxite it is totally barren; there will only be mining," he says.
“铝土矿所在的位置完全是一块不毛之地,那里只有矿”,他表示。
Sarai is the first of a long line of barren women who were desperate for children.
撒莱是一长排不育女性的第一个,她们很想要孩子。
Mostly, it had flowers and trees, a contrast to the barren landscape I was used to.
最大的变化是有了鲜花和树木,与我们刚刚经过的荒凉地带形成了鲜明的对照。
After a full day of hiking, Sims and Tedesco reached the barren, wind-wracked summit rim.
在经过一天的辛苦跋涉以后,西姆斯和特德斯科抵达了风蚀严重的荒芜峰顶。
When Europeans arrived in 1722, they found the island mostly barren and its inhabitants few.
当欧洲人1722年到达该岛时,发现它已经相当贫瘠,几乎没有居民。
Of course we know differently than that now, but they always present it as, Sarah was barren.
当然我们现在对这的认识不同了,但他们总是这么说,萨拉不会生育。
Where Terracottem sits, barren plots of land are now fertile, and have already changed lives.
在考氏土壤存在的地区,贫瘠的土地变得肥沃,人们的生活发生了改变。
Goats manage to find edibles in the seemingly barren terrain of Australia's Simpson Desert.
在澳大利亚的辛普森沙漠地带,山羊正试图从这片看似一无所有的土地上找到食物。
Heavy rain quickly ran off the steep, barren hills, triggering mudslides and swelling the river.
暴雨随陡峭贫瘠的山坡迅速流下,引发了泥石流,水位也便猛涨。
Heavy rain quickly ran off the steep, barren hills, triggering mudslides and swelling the river.
暴雨随陡峭贫瘠的山坡迅速流下,引发了泥石流,水位也便猛涨。
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