A VCR really is barren of all value until you illuminate it with a good movie.

如果没有好电影播放，录像机会显得毫无价值。

Nothing can be more melancholy than the aspect of the boundless morasses or arid wastes of the barrens of Siberia.

没有什么能比无边无际的沼泽和西伯利亚那片不毛之地的荒芜景象更加令人伤感的了。

One of those trees you might see in a field and though it's barren of leaves, it's not barren in your heart.

你可能会在田野里看到一棵树，虽然它的叶子光秃秃的，但你的心却不光秃秃的。

So what I've been discussing is, the seven and a half billion people in the world don't actually deserve to have their environment smashed by plastic, their oceans rendered depauperate or barren of sea life because of plastic.

所以我一直在讨论的是，世界上七五十亿人实际上不应该让他们的环境被塑料破坏， 他们的海洋因为塑料而变得贫瘠或贫瘠的海洋生物。