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Wasteland Industrial Grow Cultural   [Oft Adj N 英

英语单词 wasteland
英美音标 英 ['weɪstlænd] 美 ['weɪstlænd]
中文释义 n.荒地;未开垦地;贫乏之地
英语例句 (1) The wasteland of the north is scarcely populated.
(2) Back then, Beijing city was an industrial wasteland.
(3) They are going about cultivating the wasteland.
(4) We dug up a piece of wasteland to grow vegetables.
(5) My friend told me that the place she live is a cultural wasteland.
中文例句 (1) 北方的大荒原地广人稀。
(2) 那时,北京市还是一片工业荒原。
(3) 他们开始垦荒。
(4) 我们开垦了一块荒地种蔬菜。
(5) 我的朋友告诉我她住的地方文化生活贫乏。
柯林斯解释
1
[N-VAR 可变名词]荒地;荒原;不毛之地 A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way.
  [oft adj N]
  • 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。

  • ...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

  • ...an industrial wasteland.

    工业废墟

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[N-COUNT 可数名词](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 a wasteland, you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it.
  [oft adj N]
  [disapproval]
  • ...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule...

    佛朗哥高压统治下的文化贫瘠

  • 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。

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