英:[ˈweɪstlænd]
美:[ˈweɪstˌlænd]
英:[ˈweɪstlænd]
美:[ˈweɪstˌlænd]
waste·land
weIst laend
noun
land that is barren or unsuitable for vegetation.Trees do not grow on the tundra, but it is far from being a wasteland as it is abundant with lichen, mosses, and grasses.
an area or time period thought to be entirely lacking in culture or spirit.
1825年作为一个单词出现,来自形容词 waste 和名词 land。比喻意义最早见于1868年。艾略特的诗歌出自1922年。
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
四月是残酷的月份,孕育着
丧土中的紫丁香,混合
记忆和欲望,搅动
昏沉的根系和春雨。
荒地
The first known use of wasteland was in the 14th century
watchfuladjective
continually on the lookout especially for danger
watchfuladjective
continually on the lookout especially for danger
watchdognoun
a dog kept to guard property
one that guards against loss, waste, theft, or dishonesty
wastrelnoun
spendthrift
wasternoun
one that uses or uses up carelessly or needlessly
wastepapernoun
paper thrown away as used, not needed, or not fit for use
wastelandnoun
land that is not cultivated or not fit for the cultivation of crops
an ugly often ruined place or area
wastelandnoun
land that is not cultivated or not fit for the cultivation of crops
an ugly often ruined place or area
1 All the same, Joe and Nancy couldn’t help but feel a slight glow as they gunned through the dusty wasteland toward where pickings were best.
2 The service road cut through industrial wasteland and dead-ended at a strip mall.
3 The Mickey saving the wasteland is a character close to his roots.
米奇拯救荒原关乎到这个人物的根基。
4 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.
5 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.
6 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.
7 ‘We could all set out on summer evenings, recalling Honest Abe. That park we got now is just wasteland the Wabash Railroad didn’t want.”
8 I see its lights up ahead, the one bright spot in this dark wasteland.
9 Live is a path, the cloves from wasteland is open to my feet along the path.
生活是一条甬道,荒地的丁香通过它,一直开到了我的脚边.
10 Now here's just a wasteland full of garbage and my friends look miserable.
现在这里却是一个充满垃圾的荒地,而我的朋友们看起来都很悲惨.
11 Soon, a familiar landmark rose above the industrial wasteland.
12 The current project was a dragon battling a knight on horseback amid a fuming wasteland.
13 "I left him behind. In a barren, unreachable, godforsaken wasteland."
14 Sleep might be a gray wasteland to her, but she knew what was lurking beyond the safe circle of lull, and she was glad of the gray.
15 ...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
16 Now the captain plays a mournful, chilling dirge on his organ as the Nautilus sleeps in the wastelands of the sea.
17 A modern city has been set up in what was a wasteland ten years ago.
在十年前还是荒地的地方建起了一座现代化的城市.
18 The wasteland was transferred into fertile fields.
把荒地改变为良田.
19 The crater’s rim blocked their view of the wasteland behind.
20 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.
1 单调
dead-alive same waste flat quiet vegetable plain mechanic pedestrian tame blah prose bleak dreary monotonous monotone prosaic humdrum stodgy leaden unexciting unglamorous one-note monotonic toneless unrelieved singsong unvaried prosy samey ticky-tacky saltless banausic heavy flatly vegetably drab monotony flatness platitude sameness vapidity inanimation creep monotonize mechanize
2 贫乏
poor weak narrow lean spare sparse barren arid scant meager tenuous indigent scanty poverty-stricken washy sparing scraggy exiguous jejune barely poorly sparely paucity spareness tenuity sterilize
5 空洞
academic slim hollow phantom husky frothy inane washy jejune dowf thin cavity cavern cavitation inanition
6 荒野
moory wild desert wilderness moor heath barren fell solitude savagery Sahara bundu savagism Moor wold moorish waste bent moorland sahara boondocks
8 荒地
waste wild wilderness moor heath desolation moorland badlands barren no-man's-land waste ground wastelot
9 荒漠