| 1. | Out in the sticks? don't be nuts .
在那种不毛之地过日子？你别傻了。 |
| 2. | The place used to be a stretch of barren land ...
早先这里是一片不毛之地。 |
| 3. | The steamboat and the railroad cut deep into the wilderness .
铁路轮船深入不毛之地。 |
| 4. | One quarter of the country is reckoned as unproductive .
全国四分之一的土地是不毛之地。 |
| 5. | We shall turn this piece of wasteland into wheat fields .
我们要把这块不毛之地改成麦田。 |
| 6. | Surely to god, nobody was going to war over a bog .
坚信谁也不愿意就一块不毛之地打一场战争。 |
| 7. | One-sided and introspective mathematical speculation leads into sterile fields .
片面的、内省的数学思索把人们引向不毛之地。 |
| 8. | It seemed strange that such barrenness could exhibit this radiance of color .
说来真怪，在这个不毛之地居然呈现出这种灿烂的颜色。 |
| 9. | Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden .
保障一个人对一块不毛之地的所有权，他会把它变成花园。 |
| 10. | The isolation and loneliness of pride had for her mind the horror of a desert place .
因为骄傲所构成的孤独和寂寞，对她的心灵来说，是一片充满恐怖的不毛之地。 |
