wasteland

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n. 荒地, 未开垦地

发音

UK /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/
其它
UK /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/
US /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/
US /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/
NZ /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɛnd/
NZ /ˈwæes(t)ˌlɘnd/

词形变化

wastelands 复数 wastelands

别名

waste land

教材释义与例句

名词

荒地，不毛之地；未开垦地，荒漠；（精神或文化上的）贫乏

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

    荒地

    废土

    Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

  2. 2.

    Any barren or uninteresting place.

    单调的地方

    After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.

  3. 3.

    A devastated, uninhabitable area.

  4. 4.

    Unused land.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

waste barren

上位词 2

wild wilderness

下位词 2

heath heathland

词源

Inherited from Middle English wast lond, modification of earlier weste lond, from Old English weste land (“wasteland”); equivalent to waste + land.

来源：wiktionary