badlands

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
    — Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists.

词形变化

badlands plural badland alternative Bad Lands alternative,archaic

词源

From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).
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