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。
• With the decline of traditional industries and the "retreat into three" of the industrial structure adjustment, industrial wastelands in our country have gradually become the fragile part of city development and ecological improvement.
  伴随着传统工业的衰落和退二进三的产业结构调整，我国的工业废弃地逐渐成为城市发展和生态改善的硬伤。
• At present, the phenomenon of the large scale demolition and construction in our cities not only lost a large number of abandoned industrial wastelands, but also the existing industrial wasteland lost the original vitality.
  而目前我国城市中的大拆大建现象不仅使大量的废弃工业用地消失，而且尚存的也丧失了曾经的活力。
• The loss of soil and water and the desertification of land are among the most outstanding ecological and environmental issues, to which the deforestation, opening up wastelands and cultivating land on steep slopes contribute greatly.
  水土流失和土地沙化是西部地区最突出的生态环境问题，造成水土流失和土地沙化的重要原因就是毁林毁草开荒，陡坡种粮。
• The mining wastelands, which spread wide and bring serious environment pollution and ecological destruction.
  矿区废弃地分布广、污染严重，易造成生态环境的恶化；
• 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。
• 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 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。
• The Discussion on Landscape of Eucalyptus on Wastelands in Southern Cities
  南方城市废弃地上桉树景观应用探讨
• Techniques for Investigating Rat Wastelands on Grasslands
  草原鼠荒地调查技术