A few desolate houses stood in the former mining town.

在早期的采矿小镇，立着些荒废的房屋。

They began to drill, clean their weapons, and rebuild their neglected fortifications.

他们开始训练、磨刀擦枪，重建荒废已久的防御工事。

Largely abandoned after the Second World War, this former garment district is once again in vogue, as funky apartments, bars and cafes take up residence in the warehouses of old.

二战之后，该区大部分地方都已荒废，昔日的制衣区现在重新变得时尚起来，旧时的仓库，已被翻新成型格住宅、酒吧和咖啡店。

Don't let your talent rust. As they say, use it or lose it.

别让你的才华荒废了。诚如大家说的，要好好利用它，否则就会失去它。

And what they chose were abandoned houses, because that's what represented Clay County to them.

他们选择拍摄荒废的房屋，因为这代表着他们眼中的克雷郡。

The good news is that what is unlearned can be learned again.

好消息是，被荒废的可以重新学习。

I lead the way up through the woods, over the sheep fields, and down through the gardens, pointing out the ruined Roman bath house and the sandstone walls of Muncaster Castle as proudly as if I'd built them myself.

我着路，穿过树林，越过牧羊场，再向下穿过花园，指着荒废的罗马浴场和蒙卡斯特城堡的砂岩墙，骄傲得仿佛它们是我亲手建造的。

Overgrown paths led to what had been houses — old lawns thick with dead weeds, carriage blocks bearing names she knew so well, hitching posts which would never again know the knot of reins.

草丛生的小径所到之处，往往是来有房子的地方，或者是早已荒废的旧草地，标着她所熟悉的名字的停车间，以及再也不知缰绳为何物的拴马桩，等等。

Opposite sits your mother: her figure is thin, her look cheerful, yet subdued;-her arm perhaps resting on your shoulder, as she talks to you in tones of tender admonition, of the days that are to come.

母亲坐在对面，她身材瘦削，神色开心，笑得有点儿勉强，或许她的胳膊搭在你的肩上，一边轻声叮咛，嘱你不要荒废时日的家常道理。

It was a two-year course, and it proved that all the time Ove had spent learning about house building had not, after all, been wasted as he'd once believed.

课程需要两年时间，事实证明，欧维曾学到的关于房子的一切可能并没像他以为的那样荒废掉。

In one of these wings the windows were broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly caved in, a picture of ruin.

一侧的边房窗子都已经破碎，用木板堵着，房顶也有一部分坍陷了，完全是一副荒废残破的景象。

That soil loss reduces global crop yields by as much as if we took a California-sized swath of farmland out of production every decade.

土壤流失减少了全球农作物产量，相当於每十年荒废一块加州大小的农地。

A promising start then turned into 20 wasted years, largely because of Mr Berlusconi's entry on to the political stage.

一个有前途的开端演变成了荒废的20年，很大程度上是因为贝卢斯科尼总理执政。

In an abandoned football sealed in the capital city Mytilene, a sliver of a good news for thousands Syrian refugees.

在首府米蒂利尼的一座荒废的足球场，数千名叙利亚难民等来了好消息。

You must lick them every morning and remind them that a tongue is a terrible thing to waste.

你必须每天早上舔他们，提醒他们，荒废了自己的舌头是件可怕的事情。

Pressure on housing means dilapidated buildings and barns, handy for nesting, have been converted into human dwellings.

以往适宜筑巢的荒废建筑物、谷仓都被人们的住房所占。

The National Trust is concerned about an old, unused public housing development in Buffalo, New York.

美国国家历史建筑信托基金对纽约州布法罗市一处陈旧，荒废的公共住宅区表示了关注。

She was almost as curious about Dickon as she was about the deserted garden.

她对迪肯几乎和对荒废的花园一样好奇。

Here it is that we see the civilization that exists within this largely deserted city.

在这里，我们得以一窥这座大体荒废的城市中依然存在的文明。

It was like a deserted tropical island in the tundra.

这就像是在冻上的一座荒废的热带岛屿。