| 单词 | wasteland |
| 释义 | wasteland (weɪstlænd ) Word forms: wastelands 1. variable noun [oft adjective NOUN] A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way. The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland. They are testing non-edible fuel crops that can grow on wasteland. ...an industrial wasteland. Synonyms: wilderness, waste, wild, desert 2. countable noun [oft adjective NOUN] If you refer to a place, situation, or period in time as a wasteland, you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it. [disapproval] ...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule. [+ of] Everything was wrong, his life seemed to be a wasteland. Collocations: desert wasteland It was a desert wasteland where vegetation was only found in its red-water lakes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The world was turned into a vast desert wasteland and the survivors were left without memories. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Forty years prior to the events of the series, the world was turned into a vast desert wasteland and the survivors were left without memories. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Two characters pass their nights in a frozen wasteland. Times, Sunday Times The 24 tributes will be imprisoned in a vast outdoor arena that could hold anything from a burning desert to a frozen wasteland. Times, Sunday Times Yet what can match the sight of man and beast yomping in harmony across frozen wasteland and overnighting in self-built igloos? Times, Sunday Times Together they plant and tend a fragile garden in the unforgiving urban wasteland. Times, Sunday Times So while the current views over empty warehouses, urban wasteland and building sites are not as dreamy as the spires, it will not look like this for ever. Times, Sunday Times Deadpan and speaking alternately they recall being happy when they were little, running wild with each other in an urban wasteland. Times, Sunday Times Far from the traditional urban wasteland colonised first by graffiti artists, then by coffee roasters and cereal cafes, it's still the business hub. Times, Sunday Times A scrappy corner of urban wasteland next to a high-speed railway line can, with imagination, be transformed into a building filled with peace, space and light. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 荒地 Japanese: 荒れ地 |
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