Question [CN]how to translate this sentence? (resolved)

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  1. jacha

    jacha Well-Known Member

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    仅仅只有一些传承不完整的散修在黑龙帝国贫瘠无比的荒山野地里面苟延残喘
    more specifically: 贫瘠无比的荒山野地里面苟延残喘

    context: 黑龙帝国就是黑龙之塔所掌握的势力。与安塔利亚术士学院不同,黑龙之塔的术士集团渗透入了黑龙帝国的各个角落。在黑龙帝国里面,七成以上的术士掌握在黑龙之塔的手中。仅仅只有一些传承不完整的散修在黑龙帝国贫瘠无比的荒山野地里面苟延残喘。

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  2. AwwGasm

    AwwGasm Knows some things.

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    There was only a handful of loose cultivators (散修) with incomplete inheritances that struggled to survive in the black dragon empires (黑龙帝国) incomparably barren mountains and wilderness.
     
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  3. raltzero

    raltzero Last Year Until BS in IT | Lazy Overlord TL

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    Only some loose cultivators/rogue cultivators with incomplete inheritances were struggling at death's door while inside Black Dragon Empire's incomparably infertile barren hill's wilderness. :blobReach:

    Yolo:blobReach:
     
  4. elengee

    elengee Daoist Ninefaps

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    Yep, the 'was' is better as 'were' when referring to plural. And the loose cultivators sounds more like it's a bunch of sluts that are cultivating, rogue sounds much cooler.

    Still , depending on context it'd be different if they were talking about that area having few cultivators, or talking about a few cultivators being in a certain area.

    "Black Dragon Empire's incomparably infertile barren hill's wilderness only had a handful of rogue cultivators with incomplete inheritances that were struggling at death's door".

    If it's about the area and then doesn't go into the cultivators' actual hardships.
     
  5. valdesaga

    valdesaga [IDN] [7thMay] [V]aldes

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    Black Dragon Empire is the master of the Black Dragon Tower forces. Unlike the Antalya Warlock Academy, the Warlocks of the Black Dragon Tower infiltrated every corner of the Black Dragon Empire. Inside the Black Dragon Empire, over 70% of warlocks are in the hands of the Black Dragon Tower. Only a few inheritance scattered incomplete repair in the barren Heilongjiang empire barren mountains and lows.

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