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wasteland

英 ['weɪs(t)lænd; -lənd] 美['westlənd]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词

n. 荒地，不毛之地；未开垦地，荒漠；（精神或文化上的）贫乏

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词态变化

复数: wastelands;

英英释意

1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation;: "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert"

英文词源

wasteland (n.): 1825 as one word, from waste (adj.) + land (n.). Figurative sense is attested from 1868. Eliot's poem is from 1922.
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.

考试真题

A different and not mutually exclusive prediction holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one characterized by purposelessness": without jobs to give their lives meaning, people will simply become lazy and depressed.

A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.

实用场景例句

industrial wasteland: 工业废地

the desert wastelands of Arizona: 亚利桑那州的荒漠

(figurative)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。

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。

...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

...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule...: 佛朗哥高压统治下的文化贫瘠

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。

In the forest , the distribution of land and wasteland, marsh grass natural water.: 区内分布着林地、草荒地、沼泽地和自然水面.

The wasteland was transferred into fertile fields.: 把荒地改变为良田.

Constituted the 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.

Er, OK. I accept, for the civilization in the wasteland.: 呃, 好. 为了废土文明,我同意.

Our story begins with a caravan heading through the wasteland of Durotar.: 我们的故事从穿越杜隆塔尔荒地的车队开始.

All the wasteland opened up last year will have a good harvest this year.: 去年垦种的荒地,今年都有了很好的收获呢!

They opened up large tracts of wasteland.: 他们开垦了大片荒地.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor which overlooks the wasteland.: 民23:28巴勒就领巴兰到那下望旷野的毗珥山顶上.

A new city has been set up in what was a wasteland fifteen years ago.: 一座崭新的城市在五十年前还是一片荒芜的地方拔地而起.

The farmers are trying to bring the wasteland under cultivation.: 这些农民正在努力把这片荒地变为良田.

He went to his hometown and opened up wasteland for cultivation.: 他回到家乡,开荒种地.

We shall turn this piece of wasteland into wheat fields.: 我们要把这块不毛之地改成麦田.

Old forest cuts and forest open up wasteland, cause soil erosion serious, natural disaster is frequent.: 多年的森林采伐和毁林开荒, 导致水土流失严重, 自然灾难频繁.

They have created this wasteland by cutting down all trees.: 为了开辟这片荒地,他们砍掉了这里所有的树.

A modern city has been set up in what a wasteland ten years ago.: 十年前荒僻的土地上现在已经建立起了一个现代化的城市.

Caravans turn asidethey go up into the wasteland and perish.: 结伴的客旅离弃大道,顺河边行,到荒野之地死亡.

They opened up large areas of wasteland and turned them into farmland.: 他们在荒原上拓出大片农田.

The remaining 30 % of the planet is uninhabitable, a Tiberium wasteland swept by violent Ion Storms.: 剩下的30%地表是无法居住的, 离子风暴肆虐的Tiberium荒原.

Found flowering on wasteland unnoticed , unofficial, accidental.: 在一片不起眼的蛮荒之地上建立繁荣.

Clearly, Mars was not always the frozen wasteland it is today.: 很显然, 火星曾经并不都是今天这样冰冻的荒原.

More wasteland will be opened up in a planned way.: 将有计划地开垦更多荒地.

In Western literary tradition, wasteland image is an important format of spiritual symbol.: 在西方文学传统中, 荒原意象是重要的精神象征形式.