barrenness

基本解释

The lures of a celebrity culture and the barrenness of the educational landscape have left little room for broader civic concerns.
名人文化的诱惑和教育领域的荒芜把原本更广泛的对美德的关注挤占得几乎没有位置。
That cavity in our chests, that barrenness at our core, that void in our center is the place where the heart once beat and which love once occupied.
胸口的空洞，心灵的荒芜，那些空白的地方曾经搏动着我们的心脏，曾经被爱占据。
For many young people today, the lures of a celebrity culture and the barrenness of their educational landscape have left little room for broader civic concerns.
对今天的许多年轻人来说，名人文化的诱惑和教育领域的荒芜把原本更广泛的对美德的关注挤占得几乎没有位置。

That left precious little white space in the middle of Page 8, the former barrenness of which had seemed like the Nevada desert.
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