barren rock

基本解释

The dried, hardened remains of the lahar persist today, a streak of barren rock on a landscape that is otherwise richly vegetated.
干硬后的泥流残余维持至今，在植被茂密的该区形成一处贫瘠的岩石条纹状地貌。
The harbour—the reason this “barren rock” became a metropolis—continues to shrink as Hong Kong island reverts to the mainland through reclamation.
海港——丛草不生的荒地到大都市变迁的见证人——随着香港岛不断围海造地继续缩小。
Escondida means “hidden” in Spanish, and it refers to the fact that the copper ore body was buried beneath hundreds of meters of barren rock, and the surface geology gave no signs of its presence.
埃斯康迪达在西班牙语中有“隐藏”的意思，正暗示了铜矿的矿体埋藏在废石层下几百米深的地方，而从地表却一丝痕迹也看不出来。

Patrick Smith, a pilot and columnist for Salon.com, says the view of Greenland, with its creeping glaciers splintering into barren rock as you're coming in off the coast, is like no other.
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Proud and free, Okello ended up on hard rock in the bare and barren Ngong Hills.
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