In the Beta-Minus geography room John learnt that, a savage reservation is a place which, owing to unfavourable climatic or geological conditions, or poverty of natural resources, has not been worth the expense of civilizing.
约翰在比塔减教室的地理课学到了这样的东西, 野蛮保留地是由于气候或地理条件不利,或天然资源缺乏,不值得花费功夫去化的地区。