wilderness
英 ['wɪldənɪs]
美['wɪldɚnəs]
- n. 荒地;大量,茫茫一片
词态变化
复数: wildernesses;
中文词源
wilderness 荒野
来自wild,荒野的,狂野的。
英英释意
- 1. a wild and uninhabited area
英文词源
- wilderness (n.)
- c. 1200, "wild, uninhabited, or uncultivated place," with -ness + Old English wild-deor "wild animal, wild deer;" see wild (adj.) + deer (n.). Similar formation in Dutch wildernis, German Wildernis, though the usual form there is Wildnis.
考试真题
- The study's report states that as global warming transforms the environment in the world's last great wilderness, 70 percent of king penguins could either disappear or be forced to find new breeding grounds.
2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
- I was, nevertheless, talked into going on another fun-filled holiday in the wilderness.
2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文
- Trainees also get a good start on their wilderness survival badge as they learn about water-and land-survival through designed tasks and their search and rescue of "downed " pilot.
2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
- This movement, driven by powerful and diverse motivations, built a nation out of a wilderness and, by its nature, shaped the character and destiny of an uncharted continent.
出自-2015年考研翻译原文
词组搭配
a voice in the wilderness
an unheeded advocate of reform (see Matt. 3:3 etc.)
无人理睬的改革主张(见《马太福音》3:3等)
实用场景例句
- The Antarctic is the world's last great wilderness.
- 南极洲是世界上最後一個大荒原。
牛津词典
- (North Amercian English)a wilderness area (= one where it is not permitted to build houses or roads)
- (政府划定的)保留自然环境面貌地区
牛津词典
- (figurative)the barren wilderness of modern life
- 现代生活贫瘠的荒漠
牛津词典
- Their garden is a wilderness of grass and weeds.
- 他们的花园杂草丛生。
牛津词典
- ...the icy Canadian wilderness...
- 冰封的加拿大旷野
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- He is proud of the garden he made from a wilderness.
- 他为自己从荒地上开辟出的花园而感到自豪。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a party released from 12 years in the wilderness...
- 摆脱了12年在野状态的政党
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- For so long he had waited in the wilderness for a recall to Test cricket.
- 这么长时间以来,他一直在坐冷板凳,等着被召回参加板球对抗赛。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Man came further futher west to stake their claim on the great American wilderness.
- 人类远涉西部,期望能征服美洲大荒野.
期刊摘选
- The promised land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
- 理想的境地同我们之间总是隔着一片荒野.
期刊摘选
- The Promiseb Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.
- 理想的幸福国度同我们之间,通常总是隔著一片荒野.
期刊摘选
- Then Jesus was led by Spirit up into the wilderness, to be tempted by the Devil.
- 当时,耶稣被圣灵引到旷野, 受魔鬼的试探.
期刊摘选
- They took the road to the Great Northern Wilderness.
- 他们踏上了去北大荒的征程.
期刊摘选
- How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
- 他们在旷野悖逆他, 在荒地叫他担忧,何其多呢.
期刊摘选
- Where, in the wilderness called living, had he lost his way?
- 在那叫做“生活”的旷野里, 他是在什么地方迷了路?
辞典例句
- I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
- 我像旷野的鹈鹕,又像废墟里的猫头鹰.
期刊摘选
- These enormous tracts of land contain much of the nation's remaining wilderness.
- 这些大量的土地上保存着剩余的荒野.
期刊摘选
- I knew you in the wilderness, In the land of great drought.
- 5我曾在旷野极其干旱之地认识你.
期刊摘选
- Jesus went out into the wilderness to think alone.
- 耶稣走进荒野去独自思考.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They cleaved a path through the wilderness.
- 他们在荒野中打通一条路.
《现代英汉综合大词典》
- The country they came to a wilderness.
- 他们所到的国家是荒野的.
期刊摘选
- After five years in the political wilderness, she was recalled to be foreign minister.
- 下野5年后, 她被召回担任外交部长.
期刊摘选
- She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.
- 她赶着牛群穿过荒野.
《简明英汉词典》
- He likes his wilderness to be peopled by men of breeding.
- 他宁愿荒野上住着有教养的人.
辞典例句
- Dangers lurk in the path of wilderness.
- 在这条荒野的小路上隐伏着危险.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- I believe the wilderness will be new to all the party.
- 我想那片荒地大家会觉得新鲜.
辞典例句
- It is little to relinquish. What is it but a wilderness of misery and ruin?'
- 我放弃的东西很少, 除了一片痛苦与毁灭的荒原,还能有 什么 ? ”
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