A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
贫瘠
Barren
A barren sow is never kind to pigs.
不生育的母猪从不善待猪。
All I ask is to be held above the barren wastes of want.
我所要求的一切,都是要高举在贫瘠贫瘠的贫乏之上。
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
对于我们每一个似乎有过成功实验的人来说,他们自己的实验对许多人来说似乎是空洞和消极的。
Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.
因此,缺乏才能的学生将不会从这项工作中获得更多的利润,就像从一篇农业论文中获得贫瘠的土壤一样。
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
我的朋友们,你们知道,我在家里举行了第二次婚姻,那是一次多么勇敢的狂欢啊!从我床上赐下老而无生育的理性,娶了葡萄树的女儿为妻。
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
世人把旷野看作不毛之地,任意选择的人都可以自由居住;但事实上,每座山和山谷中都有一个人,他是公认的主人,他会迅速维护他的家庭或宗族对它的权利,以抵抗侵略。