wastelands

英 [ˈweɪstˌlændz]

美 [ˈweɪstˌlændz]

n.  荒地; 荒原; 不毛之地
wasteland的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 荒地;荒原;不毛之地
  Awastelandis an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way.
  1. 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。
  2. ...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
  3. ...an industrial wasteland.
     工业废墟
• N-COUNT (地方、情形或时期的)沉闷乏味，单调
  If you refer to a place, situation, or period in time as awasteland, you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it.
  1. ...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule...
     佛朗哥高压统治下的文化贫瘠
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
  他们因穷乏饥饿，身体枯瘦，在荒废凄凉的幽暗中啃干燥之地。
• Formation, hazard and exploitation of the hilly wastelands in the Ganjiang River catchment
  赣江流域山丘荒地的形成、危害和开发途径
• The Lord will surely comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; he will make her deserts like eden, her wastelands like the garden of the lord.
  耶和华已经安慰锡安，和锡安一切的荒场，使旷野像伊甸，使沙漠像耶和华的园囿。
• Unpeopled Arctic wastelands. a native or inhabitant of Iceland.
  无人居住的北冰洋荒岛冰岛的本地人或者居民。
• A research on the distribution of barren hills and wastelands in Hubei Province and its exploitation and management
  湖北省荒山荒地资源分布及开发整治
• As shown in the study, the main obstacles in soil media amelioration of the coal mining wastelands are poor physical structure of the mined soil and extremely disproportional nutrient contents, especially the lack of N element.
  研究表明，该煤矿废弃地基质改良的主要障碍是矿土不良的物理结构和极为不均衡的养分含量，尤其是氮素缺乏。
• The mining wastelands destroy and take up a great deal of land resources. The mining wastes, such as tailings and acidic wastewater, etc., causing serious pollution to the surrounding air, soil and water environment.
  矿业废弃地不仅破坏和占用大量的土地资源，废弃物的排放和堆存也带来了一系列影响深远的环境问题，对周围大气、土壤和水环境造成了严重的污染，亟待进行复垦治理和植被恢复。
• In Northeast china, woodblock printing was first used to describe the life of exploration to document in the wastelands, and then to document social organization and daily life.
  在东北部边陲，也有一支版画创作劲旅，起初以表现北大荒垦荒生活为主，以后又反映了社会建设和生活。
• In the electronic wastelands of west Africa, children are helping to clear up the developed world's discarded computers.
  在西非的电子废墟中，孩子们正在帮助清理被发达国家丢弃的计算机。
• The wastelands of old industry.
  旧式工业所造成的荒芜之地。