wasteland

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/|/ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/    美 /ˈweɪs(t)ˌlænd/|/ˈweɪs(t)ˌlənd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
    — Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
  2. Any barren or uninteresting place.
    — After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
  3. A devastated, uninhabitable area.
    — Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
  4. Unused land.
    — Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.

词形变化

wastelands plural

词汇关系

相关词
anecumene wilderness

词源

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