Whole stretches of land were laid waste and depopulated.
一片片土地荒芜，人口减少。
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Long is Britain's best-known Land Artist and his Stone Circle, a perfect ring of purplish rocks from Portishead beach laid out on the gallery floor, represents the elegant, rarefied side of the form.
If land used to collateralise much of their borrowing falls in value or is laid claim to by several lenders, that would probably prompt at least some financial entities to fail.