La Palabra Del Día "yermo"
yermo ( YEHR-moh )
(adjective) uninhabited; barren
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1: Parece yermo este lugar, pero en realidad está lleno de especias desérticas.
This place appears uninhabited, but it is actually full of desert species.
2: Vámonos de esta tierra yerma y olvidada de Dios.
Let us leave this barren, godforsaken land.
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En el yermo Desierto de Tabernas en España se rodaron unos de los "spaghetti Westerns" de Clint Eastwood.
Some of the "spaghetti Westerns" of Clint Eastwood were shot in the barren Tabernas Desert of Spain.
¿A quién te gustaría tener a su lado si estés estuvieras encallado en una isla yerma?
Whom would you want to have at your side if you were stranded on an uninhabited island?
El Ártico tiene unas vastas tierras yermas con pequeñas aldeas dispersas a lo largo de vias de agua.
The Arctic is a vast barren land with small scattered villages along waterways.
Este paisaje yermo es el resultado de una erupción volcánica.
This barren landscape is the result of a volcanic eruption.
El soldado atravesó la tierra yerma buscando algo para beber. Se moría de sed. Cruelmente, la única cosa que encontró fue era un botella de Gatorade inflable.
The soldier traversed the barren land looking for something to drink. He was dying of thirst. Cruelly, the only thing that he found was an inflatable Gatorade bottle.
Thanks, Ken, for the correction 
After bombing raids of cities there are many areas of barren uncultivated land.
Después de bombardear las incursiones de las ciudades hay muchas áreas yermos y sin cultivar.
De veras hay un lugar yermo que se llama Yermo, California. En las fotos verán un restaurante visitado sólo por fantasmas, quienes son habitantes del "Calico Ghost Town, unos pocos kilo lejos, Un cementerio, y otras cosas interesantes.
There really is a desolate place called Yermo, California. In the pictures you will see a restaurant visited only by ghosts who are residents of "Calico Ghost Town, a few klicks distant, a cemetery and a few other interesting things.
Below is a "house" made from a train car, and now abandoned.
Yerma is a play by the Spanish writer Federico García Lorca .He describes the play as "a tragic poem." The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain. Her desperate desire for motherhood becomes an obsession that eventually drives her to commit a horrific crime.
Yerma( Barren) es una obra del escritor español Federico García Lorca. Describe la obra como "un poema trágico". La obra cuenta la historia de una mujer sin hijos que vive en la España rural. Su deseo desesperado de maternidad se convierte en una obsesión que finalmente la lleva a cometer un crimen horrible.
Mi yerna es yerma (infértil). Ella no puede tener niños nunca. ¡Qué triste! Entonces, no puedo ser abuela a menos que mi hijo se divorcie de ella y casarse con otra muchacha. Espero que yo pueda tener nietos algun día. Déjeme pensar, ¿a quién más conozco? ¡Vaya! ¡La sobrina de mi vecino podría ser perfecto!
My daughter-in-law is barren. She can never have children. How sad! So, I can never be a grandmother unless my son divorces her and marries another girl. I sure hope I can have grandchildren some day. Let me think, who else do I know? Wow!, my neighbor's niece could be perfect!
La tierra yerma no ha crecido una buena cosecha durante muchos años.
The barren land has not grown a good crop for many years.
Cuando los romanos vencieron Cartago, sí, destruyeron la ciudad, pero a pesar de los rumores, no hay evidencia que hubieran arado sal de verdad en la tierra para convertirla en una tierra yerma permanente, sino más tarde reconstruyen la ciudad, la cual se hizo un centro importante en el Imperio Romano.
When the Romans defeated Carthage, yes, they destroyed the city, but despite the rumors, there is not evidence that they had really plowed salt into the earth to convert it into a permanent barren land, instead later the they rebuilt the city, which became an important center in the Roman Empire.
As for Carthage, we need to take that story with a pinch of salt too. When Scipio sacked Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BC, it's not out of the question that he salted the ground. Salt was readily available at salt works and brine springs all over Italy, and the Romans had conquered Carthaginian salt works in north Africa. However, no ancient account says anything about salting the ground - that twist may have originated with the 19th-century German historian Ferdinand Gregorovius, who mentions it in his History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages. Gregorovius's contemporary Theodor Mommsen says the Roman senate ordered the site of Carthage to be plowed under, but even that's debatable. Whatever fearsome measures may have been adopted, they didn't take; the site was reinhabited within a century and developed into a thriving Roman city.
La gran mentira era que Australia es una tierra yermo , o tierra de nadie y fue era deshabitado.
The big lie was that Australia is a barren land, or no man's land and was uninhabited.
Chitwan estaba una tierra yermo, pero, ahora hay muchas Tharus y otras. Muchas turistas gustan los bailas de Tharu Stick Dance.
Chitwan used to be a barren land, but, now there are many Tharus and others. Lots of tourists like the dances of Tharu Stick Dance.
I would not suggest traveling to an uninhabited wasteland: you would probably find yourself in a precarious situation.
No sugeriría viajar a un desierto yermo: probablemente se encontraría en una situación precaria.
The island was uninhabited and untouched by man. It was however home to animals of all different shapes and sizes.
La isla era yermo y sin tocar por el hombre. Sin embargo, era hogar de animales de todas formas y tamaños diferentes.
