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A wasteland is an area of land that is empty, ruined, or useless — nothing grows there, or nothing good happens there anymore. It's used for real places, like a desert or a bombed city, and also for situations, like calling a boring TV schedule 'a cultural wasteland.'
荒地；廢墟；（比喻）貧乏的領域
組成Waste + land.
同家族的字
- vast'waste' and 'vast' both trace back to the same Latin word 'vastus' (empty, huge) — French speakers said the 'v' sound as 'w,' which is why the spelling changed
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
wastelandnoun/ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/
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A place with no remaining resources; a desert.
- Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.
- 2007, Kai Hansen, "To Mother Earth", Gamma Ray, Land of the Free II. Here create another wasteland / On and on 'til nothing's there / Here it comes, the devastation / Poisoning the air
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Any barren or uninteresting place.
- After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.
- Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland.
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A devastated, uninhabitable area.
- Another place where, from the aesthetic point of view, a long tunnel would have been a real blessing, is East London as viewed from the carriage window on the old Great Eastern line. Despite a vast change from crowded slums to tracts of wasteland, due to its grim wartime experience, this approach still provides a shabby and unworthy introduction to the great capital.
- How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?
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Unused land.
- Azaz and Ray were nominated individually for what, at first glance, looked like a project to transform wasteland at South Tottenham station into a community garden.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。