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desolate / shortage / scarce / out of practice / absurd / uncultivated / to neglect
HSK 7-9
beyond belief / incredible / preposterous / fantastic
HSK 7-9
desolate
HSK 7-9
absurd; ridiculous
HSK 7-9
wilderness
(neologism c. 2016) no tv shows to watch
pioneer / groundbreaker
to open up land (for agriculture)
Arai (Japanese surname)
wallowing in lust
crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty
wild, mountainous country
to open up land (for agriculture)
barren or uninhabited island / CL: 個|个,
savage / wild / uncivilized territory
shameless
to glean / to collect scraps / to eke out a meager living
to escape from a famine / to get away from a famine-stricken region
left to return to unchecked growth / overgrown / grown wild
unprecedented / for the first time / never before / first ever
barren sands of the Gobi desert
desolate and uninhabited (idiom)
desert; desolate wilderness; barren wasteland / vast and desolate
to open up land (for agriculture)
absurd / preposterous / ridiculous
absolutely ridiculous (idiom); preposterous / the height of folly
(idiom) until the end of time
to flee in defeat / to bolt
ridiculous / unbelievable / absurd
natural disaster / famine
to lie idle (of arable land) / fig. rusty because of lack of practice
to abandon (cultivated fields) / no longer cultivated / to lie waste / wasted / to neglect (one's work or study)
wasteland / uncultivated land
year of famine
out-of-the-way places
(literary) famine
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
preposterous
wasteland
drought and famine
desert mountain / barren hill
remote region
desolate area outside a town
weeds / brush (vegetation) / wild grassland
to be tolerant / to be forgiving / to conceal / to cover
alkali wasteland
an abandoned village
desolate / deserted / out-of-the-way
desolate and poor / infertile
the Great Northern Wilderness (in Northern China)
absurd / unthinkable
abandoned land
culinary desert
shortage of electricity
to prepare against natural disasters
soldiers munity and troops rebel (idiom); turmoil and chaos of war
funerals and famines
cultural desert
to be distracted from one's work and fail to achieve results (idiom)
famine / critical shortage of grain
beyond belief / preposterous / absurd / intemperate / dissipated
desolate and cold / frozen wastes
to abandon / to let go to waste
licentious
(bird species of China) isabelline shrike (Lanius isabellinus)
desertification
lit. abandoned by men and choked with weeds / desolate (idiom)
to be out of practice / rusty
completely ridiculous and unfounded


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