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

• 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。
• In the early period of rice-growing, the yield was very low due to the heavy salt and poor fertility of the wastelands.
  在水稻种植早期阶段产量很低，因为这种荒地盐分太重、壤肥力太低。
• 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。
• Study on the Vegetation Restoration and Reconstruction on Different Kinds of Mining Wastelands in Fujian Province
  福建不同类型矿山废弃地植被的恢复与重建研究
• 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。
• Formation, hazard and exploitation of the hilly wastelands in the Ganjiang River catchment
  赣江流域山丘荒地的形成、危害和开发途径
• According to the angle of soil ecology and restoration ecology, the characteristics of degeneration ecosystem on the slag wastelands have described.
  本研究从土壤生态学和恢复生态学的角度评价了矿渣废弃地退化生态系统土壤的特征；
• 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 policy supports increasing biodiesel plantations on community, government-owned and forest wastelands, but not on fertile, irrigated lands.
  该政策支持在社区、政府拥有的土地以及森林荒地上增加生物柴油作物的种植，但是不是在肥沃的灌溉农田上。
• Unpeopled Arctic wastelands. a native or inhabitant of Iceland.
  无人居住的北冰洋荒岛冰岛的本地人或者居民。