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Meaning of 穷山恶水

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穷 qióng 山 shān 恶 è 水 shuǐ (Trad.: 窮山惡水)
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom); fig. inhospitable natural environment
Example Sentences
1
中国有两句与山水有关的成语
:
穷山恶水和山穷水尽
。
China has two idiom that concern with landscape: Barren mountains and unruly rivers and at the end of one's resources.
2
于此同时
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历史上和世界各地的暴动都显示最穷山恶水出动乱
。
Meanwhile the social history and geography of riots suggests more mayhem to come from the poorest places.
3
请记住
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追捕本拉登是派遣美军到阿富汗的穷山恶水去的主要原因
。
Hunting down bin Laden was, remember, the primary reason for sending US troops to that remote nation.
4
中巴车开上东发村印满趁魅辙的泥傍门
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载着这位年青工人和他的太太分开这个接近俄罗斯鸿沟的穷山恶水
。
The bus is starting to roll down the rutted dirt road in Dongfa village, carrying the young worker and his wife away from this ghost town near the Russian border.
5
第二
,
那些被基地组织招募的伊斯兰势力极端分子
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除了获得了一块也门无法治理的穷山恶水外
,
没有得到丝毫好处
。
Second, the extreme wing of political Islam, epitomised by al-Qaeda, has completely failed to benefit, except perhaps in the ungovernable badlands of Yemen.