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 .
