英语词汇“wilderness”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wilderness

/ˈwɪldənɪs

noun [usually in singular]

1An uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness....

Incredibly, 250 years ago the Lake District was seen as an ugly and inhospitable wilderness.
I saw sequoias as tall and straight as skyscrapers, celestial waterfalls and a wilderness stretching to unseen horizons.

Synonyms

wilds, wastes, uninhabited region, inhospitable region, uncultivated region, badlands;

jungle;

desert;

South African bundu

1.1A neglected or abandoned area: the garden had become a wilderness of weeds and bushes...

Ponies play a crucial role in the area's ecology by eating vast amounts of vegetation and preventing the landscape turning into a wilderness.
To the right is a wilderness, abandoned to brambles, ground elder, bindweed and buddleia.
A lot of farmers went out of business, some of the more marginal farming areas reverted to wilderness.

Synonyms

wasteland, neglected area, abandoned area, no-man's-land

1.2A position of disfavour, especially in a political context: the man who led the Labour Party out of the wilderness [as modifier]: his wilderness years...

In this capacity he was given charge only of the Royal Navy, a position that, after ten years in the political wilderness, he was content to accept.
And, if we don't send that message, I fear that we will be in the political wilderness for a long time.
Churchill spent most of the 1930s in the political wilderness opposing the disastrous appeasement of Hitler.

Phrases

a voice in the wilderness

Origin

Old English wildēornes 'land inhabited only by wild animals', from wild dēor 'wild deer' + -ness.

单词	wilderness
释义	wilderness /ˈwɪldənɪs / noun [usually in singular] 1An uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.Ahead is a barren land of lochans and beautifully-ridged mountains rising steeply from an uninhabited wilderness.... Incredibly, 250 years ago the Lake District was seen as an ugly and inhospitable wilderness. I saw sequoias as tall and straight as skyscrapers, celestial waterfalls and a wilderness stretching to unseen horizons. Synonyms wilds, wastes, uninhabited region, inhospitable region, uncultivated region, badlands; jungle; desert; South African bundu 1.1A neglected or abandoned area: the garden had become a wilderness of weeds and bushes... Ponies play a crucial role in the area's ecology by eating vast amounts of vegetation and preventing the landscape turning into a wilderness. To the right is a wilderness, abandoned to brambles, ground elder, bindweed and buddleia. A lot of farmers went out of business, some of the more marginal farming areas reverted to wilderness. Synonyms wasteland, neglected area, abandoned area, no-man's-land 1.2A position of disfavour, especially in a political context: the man who led the Labour Party out of the wilderness [as modifier]: his wilderness years... In this capacity he was given charge only of the Royal Navy, a position that, after ten years in the political wilderness, he was content to accept. And, if we don't send that message, I fear that we will be in the political wilderness for a long time. Churchill spent most of the 1930s in the political wilderness opposing the disastrous appeasement of Hitler. Phrases a voice in the wilderness Origin Old English wildēornes 'land inhabited only by wild animals', from wild dēor 'wild deer' + -ness.
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