不毛之地 meaning in English
(不生长草木五谷的地方) gally; barren land; desert; a desert region; sterile land; waste land [region]; a bare and barren land; meager soil; arid land; land without a blade of grass; land which does not grow anything 短语和例子
Examples
- Out in the sticks? don't be nuts .
在那种不毛之地过日子？你别傻了。 - The place used to be a stretch of barren land ...
早先这里是一片不毛之地。 - The steamboat and the railroad cut deep into the wilderness .
铁路轮船深入不毛之地。 - One quarter of the country is reckoned as unproductive .
全国四分之一的土地是不毛之地。 - We shall turn this piece of wasteland into wheat fields .
我们要把这块不毛之地改成麦田。