柯林斯詞典wasteland /?we?st?l?nd/ (wastelands) 1. N-VAR A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way. 荒地 The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland. 汙染已使大片地區(qū)變爲(wèi)荒原。2. N-COUNT 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. (精神上或文化上的) 荒原[表不滿] ...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule. …彿朗哥殘暴統(tǒng)治下的文化荒原。 返回 waste land