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Meaning of 穷山恶水

Lookup via: Pinyin | Radicals
qióng shān è shuǐ (Trad.: 窮山惡水)
lit. barren hills and wild rivers (idiom); fig. inhospitable natural environment
Example Sentences
1
China has two idiom that concern with landscape: Barren mountains and unruly rivers and at the end of one's resources.
2
Meanwhile the social history and geography of riots suggests more mayhem to come from the poorest places.
3
Hunting down bin Laden was, remember, the primary reason for sending US troops to that remote nation.
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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.
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Second, the extreme wing of political Islam, epitomised by al-Qaeda, has completely failed to benefit, except perhaps in the ungovernable badlands of Yemen.