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不毛之地bù máo zhī dìa barren country (/land); a desert country (/region); a sterile region(/land/soil); an unproductive tract of land; an arid land; a desert; a marginal (/hungry/waste)land; land which does not grow anything; the unfruitful ground
❍ 今辱弟造反； 又劳丞相深入～，如此生受，孟节合该万死，故先于丞相之前请罪。(《三国演义》767) I am ashamed for my brother’s rebellion; which has put you,O Minister,to the trouble of making this expedition into a barren country,but it has given me the privilege of seeing you. For my responsibility in this I deserve to die a thousand times,as I own to your face,and I beg your pardon.
❍ 灭之自然较迟，但他们要住最不适于居住的～，……(《鲁迅选集》Ⅱ—143)Though their extinction might be postponed,they would be living in a barren land utterly unsuited to human habitation; …/南方～，瘴疫之乡相秉钧衡之重任，而自远征，非所宜也。(《三国演义》744) The south is a desert country reeking with malaria. It was wrong that an officer of state in such an exalted and responsible position should go away on a distant expedition. 不毛之地barren land 不毛之地bù máo zhī dì不毛：不长草木五谷的地方。形容最荒凉或最贫瘠的地方。desert, barren land, a sterile region |