They were the world and life itselfwhile hong kong was like a depopulated tropical island neatly laid out for somesort of project .

他们自身便是世俗与生活，而香港则像是人烟稀少的热带岛屿，纯粹地为了某个工程而腾出的一块地。

Whole stretches of land were laid waste and depopulated .

一片片土地荒芜，人口减少。

Already the landscape has a depopulated and dreamlike air .

此处景色已呈现人烟渺稀、物影朦胧的样子。

Japan needs to redraw the electoral map after the election , in order to avoid a constitutional crisis related to voting disparities between heavily populated and depopulated areas .

日本需要在大选结束之后重新描画选举地图，以避免发生因在人口稠秘密区和人口稀少地区的投票差距而产生的制宪危机。

Many people are returning to devastated villages in depopulated countryside , much of it mined .

许多人回到人口减少的乡村地区被毁坏的村庄，大部分都还埋有地雷。