1、
The farmers in this area have to struggle to wrest a living from the infertile soil.
该地区的农民不得不在这块贫瘠的土地上挣扎谋生.
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The soil proved too infertile to sustain real pasture or arable crops.
这土壤被证明太贫瘠,不能真正用作放牧或种植作物.
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