| 释义 |
wasteland
['weɪst.lænd] noun
countable or uncountable
■an empty area of land, especially in or near a city, which is not not used to grow crops or built on, or used in any way （尤指城市里或市郊的）荒地•The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city.那辆汽车被遗弃在该市南部的一片荒地里。 only singular literary disapproving
■a place, time or situation containing nothing positive or productive, or completely without a particular quality or activity 荒原；荒漠（指缺乏积极向上等特质的时代或局面）；不毛之地•the spiritual wasteland of the 1980s20世纪80年代的精神荒漠 |