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  *荒* | 荒* | *荒
desolate / shortage / scarce / out of practice / absurd / uncultivated / to neglect
HSK 7-9
(neologism c. 2016) no tv shows to watch
to open up land (for agriculture)
crop failure / famine / debt / difficulty
to open up land (for agriculture)
savage / wild / uncivilized territory
to glean / to collect scraps / to eke out a meager living
to escape from a famine / to get away from a famine-stricken region
unprecedented / for the first time / never before / first ever
to open up land (for agriculture)
natural disaster / famine
to lie idle (of arable land) / fig. rusty because of lack of practice
out-of-the-way places
(literary) famine
to clear waste land or forest by burning / slash-and-burn (agriculture)
wallowing in lust
to be tolerant / to be forgiving / to conceal / to cover
alkali wasteland
the Great Northern Wilderness (in Northern China)
abandoned land
shortage of electricity
to prepare against natural disasters
funerals and famines
famine / critical shortage of grain


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