wilderness

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n. 荒野, 荒地, 大量

发音

UK /ˈwɪldənəs/
UK /-nɪs/
US /ˈwɪldɚnəs/

词形变化

wildernesses 复数 wildernesses

别名

wildernesse

教材释义与例句

名词

荒地；大量，茫茫一片

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

    荒野

    荒原

    不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    A place other than land (for example, the air or sea) that is uncared for, and therefore devoted to disorder or wildness.

    可数 引申义 不可数
  3. 3.

    An ornamental part of a garden or park cultivated with trees and often a maze to evoke a natural wilderness.

    可数 植物学 商务 引申义 不可数
  4. 4.

    Unrefinedness; wildness.

    废旧 不可数 引申义 可数
  5. 5.

    Chiefly followed by of: a bewildering flock or throng; a large, often jumbled, collection of things.

    可数 比喻 不可数
  6. 6.

    A place or situation that is bewildering and in which one may get lost.

    可数 比喻 不可数
  7. 7.

    Preceded by in the: a situation of disfavour or lack of recognition; (specifically, politics) of a politician, political party, etc.: a situation of being out of office.

    可数 比喻 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

wild

上位词 6

richness cornucopia profusion disfavor disfavour profuseness

下位词 5

waste bush frontier barren wasteland

相关短语

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词源

From Middle English wildernes, wildernesse (“desolate or uninhabited place, desolation”) [and other forms], and then either: * from Middle English wilderne (“deserted or uninhabited place, wilderness; land not yet settled”) [and other forms] (from Old English wilddeōren (“savage, wild”); see below) + -nes, -nesse (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states); or * from Old English *wildēornes, *wilddēornes, either from wilddēor (“wild animal”) [and other forms] or wilddēoren (“savage, wild”) (from wilddēor + -en (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘consisting of; material made of’)) + -nes (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states). Wilddēor is derived from wilde (“savage, wild”) (ultimately either from Proto-Indo-European *wel-, *welw- (“hair, wool; ear of corn, grass; forest”), or *gʷʰel- (“wild”)) + dēor (“beast, wild animal”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes- (“to breathe; breath; soul, spirit; creature”)). The English word is cognate with Danish vildnis (“wilderness”), German Wildernis, Wildnis (“wilderness”), Middle Dutch wildernisse (“wilderness”) (modern Dutch wildernis (“wilderness”)), Middle Low German wildernisse (“wilderness”) (German Low German Wildernis (“wilderness”)), Saterland Frisian Wüüldernis (“wilderness”), West Frisian wyldernis (“wilderness”). Sense 3.3 (“situation of disfavour or lack of recognition”) is a reference to Numbers 14:32–33 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “But as for you, your carcasses, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcasses be wasted in the wilderness.”

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