wasteland

英 [ˈweɪstlænd]

美 [ˈweɪstlænd]

n.  荒地; 荒原; 不毛之地

复数：wastelands　

Collins.1 / BNC.14913 / COCA.14722

牛津词典

noun

• 荒地；荒原；不毛之地
  an area of land that cannot be used or that is no longer used for building or growing things on
  1. industrial wasteland
     工业废地
  2. the desert wastelands of Arizona
     亚利桑那州的荒漠
  3. The mid 1970s are seen as a cultural wasteland for rock music.
     20世纪70年代中期被视为摇滚乐的文化荒漠。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 荒地;荒原;不毛之地
  Awastelandis an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way.
  1. The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland.
     污染已经使大片地区沦为不毛之地。
  2. ...a 1 billion scheme which was to transform the wasteland of London's docks.
     耗资10亿英镑的旨在改造伦敦港区荒地的计划
  3. ...an industrial wasteland.
     工业废墟
• N-COUNT (地方、情形或时期的)沉闷乏味，单调
  If you refer to a place, situation, or period in time as awasteland, you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it.
  1. ...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule...
     佛朗哥高压统治下的文化贫瘠
  2. Everything was wrong, his life seemed to be a wasteland.
     每件事都不对劲，他的生活百无聊赖。

英英释义

noun

• an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation
  1. the barrens of central Africa
  2. the trackless wastes of the desert
  Synonym:barrenwaste

双语例句

• They opened up large areas of wasteland and turned them into farmland.
  他们在荒原上拓出大片农田。
• His land is adjacent to the biggest vegetable wasteland in the county.
  他的土地毗邻县上最大的蔬菜废弃物囤积地。
• Live is a path, the cloves from wasteland is open to my feet along the path.
  生活是一条甬道，荒地的丁香通过它，一直开到了我的脚边。
• Government, through the funding of planting fruit trees to make green wasteland successfully improved the ecological environment.
  政府通过资助种植果树以使荒地变绿，成功的改善了生态环境。
• A modern city was built in what used to be a wasteland.
  一座现代化的城市在过去的荒地上建了起来。
• A modern city has been set up in what was a wasteland ten years ago.
  十年前这里还是一片荒地，现在一座现代化的城市已在这里树立起来。
• Constituted the dead and endless summer in the wasteland.
  都在这一个无尽漫长的夏天成为了荒原的旱季。
• Everything was wrong, his life seemed to be a wasteland.
  每件事都不对劲，他的生活百无聊赖。
• Their relationship had become an emotional wasteland.
  他们的关系已经成了一片感情的荒原。
• Large tracts of wasteland have become a granary.
  荒滩变成米粮川。