estéril

EN All they had thought, first and last, rolled over him; the past seemed to have been reduced to mere barren speculation.
GL Inundouno todo o que pensaran, dende o inicio ata o final; o pasado parecía quedar reducido a unha simple especulación estéril.
Fonte: BES (350)

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inútil

EN He felt rigid and barren, like a pair of boots that has been soaked and gone dry so that you can hardly force your feet into them.
GL Sentiuse irto e inútil, coma un par de botas enchoupadas que logo, ó secaren, custa traballo poder calzar.
Fonte: CAR (1365)

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improdutivo

A forma ortográfica correcta deste termo é improdutivo. Na normativa anterior a 2003, a forma ortográfica correcta era improductivo, que é a que se recolle no exemplo.

EN This has its advantages as well as its drawbacks, and accounts for the considerable amount of work done on a small scale: pottery, lace, spinning, weaving (on primitive hand-looms), sabot-making, boat-building -- wherever the soil is barren the Galician devises some industry to keep his hands from idleness and his body from starvation.
GL Isto ten as súas vantaxes e os seus inconvenientes e xustifica a grande cantidade de traballo que se fai a pequena escala: cerámica, encaixes, fiado, tecidos (en primitivos teares de man), elaboración de zocos, construcción de barcos, etc. Onde queira que o solo sexa improductivo, o galego argalla algún tipo de actividade para afasta-las súas mans da desocupación e o seu corpo da fame.
Fonte: GAL (284)

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baleiro

EN The horizon stretched, impersonal once more, barren of all but the faintest trace of smoke.
GL O horizonte alongábase, impersoal unha vez máis, baleiro de todo, agás dunha lene pegada de fume.
Fonte: SEN (1838)

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desértico

EN At about the middle of the afternoon of the preceding day a little whiff of light vapor --a mere thickening of the atmosphere, the ghost of a cloud-- had been observed clinging to the western side of Mount St. Helena, away up along the barren altitudes near the summit.
GL Contra á media tarde do día anterior unha nubeciña de vapor lixeiro --un simple espesamento da atmosfera, o fantasma dunha nube-- fora observada colgando da cara oeste do monte Santa Helena, ben alta, arredor das desérticas altitudes preto do cume.
Fonte: HAL (121)

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esgrebio

EN Will they help the small-scale farmers cultivating the Niger's barren, powdery soil to feed their families?
GL ¿Axudarán a nutrirse ós pequenos agricultores das terras esgrebias e poeirentas de Níxer?
Fonte: C05 (654)

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ermo

EN Like a slab of clay forgotten in an over-heated kiln, flat bands of scorched sandstone, cracked and brittle, give way to wind-rippled dunes, offering the only gentle touch to this barren landscape, where a scraggy tree exudes an almost spiritual aura by its defiance to survive.
GL As extensións de area ardente e regañada dan paso a dunas acariciadas polo vento, único toque apracible nesta paisaxe erma, na que unha árbore rara proxecta unha aura case espiritual.
Fonte: C19 (635)

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deserto

EN At first, the reef looks barren but in crevices we find several interesting fishes and corals we haven't yet seen during the survey.
GL Aínda que parece deserto, as fisuras albergan varias especies interesantes de peixes e de coral que non observaramos ata agora.
Fonte: C21 (51)

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