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。

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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。

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According to the Nuzi texts, if a wife is barren, she is to provide a maidservant as a substitute to bear her husband's children.

根据 Nuzi 文件，如果一个妻子不能生育，她将提供一个女仆作为代替品来为她的丈夫生育孩子。

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"Waziristan is full of narrow valleys and barren mountains and it's a God-given country for any guerilla to fight in,".

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Also according to the Nuzi texts, if a wife is barren, she is to provide a maidservant as a substitute to bear her husband's children. And this is something that happens with three out of the four matriarchs, who are afflicted with infertility: Sarah, Rachel and Leah.

根据Nuzi文件，如果妻子不能生育,那作为替代她就要让自己的女仆为自己的丈夫生养后代,女族长中四分之三都会出现这种情况,她们饱受不孕的折磨，撒拉、拉结和利亚都是这样。

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Now,small trees dot the once barren schoolyard of a village elementary school, along with special trash cans for biodegradable waste.

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Interest, therefore, was based on an unnatural act, that of treating wealth as though it was fertile, when it was as barren as a mule.

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McLaren have now set the pace in the the last four practice sessions and will be aiming to end a barren spell of 10 races without a podium finish on Sunday.

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But for a landowner, planning permission can turn barren fields into a goldmine.

ECONOMIST: Charge of the country brigade