Definition of wasteland in English:

wasteland

nounˈweɪs(t)ləndˈweɪs(t)landˈweɪs(t)lænd

mass noun

1An unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown.
荒地，未开垦地
we'd creep through a hole in the fence on this bit of wasteland and play games in the bushes
Example sentencesExamples
- The trip would comprise of roughly 750 km through the vast Mongolian prairies and the arid wastelands of the Gobi desert.
- A historical epic set in China's vast northern wastelands would be expensive to make.
- His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power.
- The TV-stations have been wastelands for two decades and most newspapers never had any interesting in what was happening abroad.
- The main alternative to the cattle cure of wastelands is hydroseeding, in which a machine sprays a mixture of seeds and fertilizer onto the barren soil.
- I seem to wander between the wastelands within as of late.
- The mountain passes are high and demanding, the climate gives extremes of weather conditions, the infrastructure is primitive and the hidden wastelands are boundless.
- In the frigid dark silence he sat, the familiar rumble of the transport flooded his ears as they traversed the wastelands, almost lulling him to sleep.
- A harsh wind blew in from the wastelands, cutting through the damp concrete walls and sending the temperature in the cell down another few degrees.
- They were denuding the sheep pastures of grass, turning once successful ranches into wastelands and reducing wool production by half.
- Wood is found in the village's wastelands / countryside, or re-used from the rubble of the houses.
- It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again.
- I am dragged through the wastelands of unknown territory for hours until the people that captured me stop.
- The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans.
- All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl.
- The estimates of wastelands range from 76 million hectares to 175 million hectares.
- These wetlands carelessly almost stupidly classified as wastelands are the first to lose ground to urban built-environments.
- We drive through flat wastelands of scrub and dust.
- The new peripheral communities were decried for everything from scarring the landscape to being cultural wastelands.
- After a period in the rock wastelands during the nineties, he has emerged as a white-haired charmer, with sex appeal to women of a certain age, as they say.
Synonyms
wilderness, desert, waste, barren land, dust bowl
wilds, badlands
1. 1.1also wastelands A bleak and unused or neglected urban or industrial area.
  （城区或工业区的）荒凉之地；废墟
  the restoration of industrial wasteland
  工业废墟的重建。
  count noun figurative the mid 70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland
  〈喻〉70年代中期现在看来有些像一个文化荒漠时期。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is that rarest of rare breeds, a Tory activist and campaigner who keeps the blue flag flying above the housing schemes and wastelands of Glasgow's east end.
  Government intervention ensures that intercity areas are well kept and that ethnic ghettos and industrial wastelands do not emerge.
  It's mostly teenagers, but there's youngsters as young as four and five starting fires in the wastelands around the estates.
  I drove down streets that once teemed with life and now are ruined wastelands.
  Whether it's rusting machinery and industrial wastelands, or ivy-draped columns, ruins are undeniably romantic.
  These wastelands are a big source of pollution and the Ministry of Environment is making it its priority to work on waste recycling and management in Bulgaria.
  Sections of many US cities are violent urban wastelands.
  But the most spectacular thing about the Polish Neisse riverbank with its wastelands, hourly hotels and dusty stores is the view of Görlitz.
  When native film-makers point the camera at their homeland, the post-industrial wastelands of the Clyde are usually somewhere in the background.
  Hundreds of homes have already been torn down, leaving wastelands dividing the streets.
  A government-planning edict has seen derelict urban wastelands transformed into residential and working communities.
  A year ago when we drove down the nearby raised road, both sides of the dyke were wastelands covered by small clumps of brush.
  Are the more modest price rises across Britain as a whole merely a reflection of the fact there are huge urban wastelands where no one will ever want to live again?
  An immense amount has been built in two areas, both of which were desolate wastelands in 1992 because they had either been underneath or very close to the wall.
  Like urban garages, car parts shops and so on, such places tend to spring up spontaneously like weeds in wastelands and interstices of cities.
  The cross country race features a tight and twisty, yet relatively flat course in the urban wastelands just south of Seatac Airport.
  My favourite of these are the daffodils which appear everywhere from formal gardens to woodland paths to urban wastelands.
  The decaying sports grounds have been turned into wastelands and junkie hangout spots.
  It was shot in 16 mm Cinemascope in the wastelands of Winnipeg's St. Boniface industrial stockyards.
  And they still bear the brunt of urban poverty as single parents in the commercial wastelands that too often are their neighborhoods.

Definition of wasteland in US English:

wasteland

nounˈweɪs(t)lændˈwās(t)land

1An unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown.
荒地，未开垦地
Example sentencesExamples
- It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again.
- All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl.
- The new peripheral communities were decried for everything from scarring the landscape to being cultural wastelands.
- His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power.
- A harsh wind blew in from the wastelands, cutting through the damp concrete walls and sending the temperature in the cell down another few degrees.
- In the frigid dark silence he sat, the familiar rumble of the transport flooded his ears as they traversed the wastelands, almost lulling him to sleep.
- I seem to wander between the wastelands within as of late.
- A historical epic set in China's vast northern wastelands would be expensive to make.
- The estimates of wastelands range from 76 million hectares to 175 million hectares.
- The trip would comprise of roughly 750 km through the vast Mongolian prairies and the arid wastelands of the Gobi desert.
- I am dragged through the wastelands of unknown territory for hours until the people that captured me stop.
- The TV-stations have been wastelands for two decades and most newspapers never had any interesting in what was happening abroad.
- Wood is found in the village's wastelands / countryside, or re-used from the rubble of the houses.
- The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans.
- The mountain passes are high and demanding, the climate gives extremes of weather conditions, the infrastructure is primitive and the hidden wastelands are boundless.
- After a period in the rock wastelands during the nineties, he has emerged as a white-haired charmer, with sex appeal to women of a certain age, as they say.
- We drive through flat wastelands of scrub and dust.
- They were denuding the sheep pastures of grass, turning once successful ranches into wastelands and reducing wool production by half.
- The main alternative to the cattle cure of wastelands is hydroseeding, in which a machine sprays a mixture of seeds and fertilizer onto the barren soil.
- These wetlands carelessly almost stupidly classified as wastelands are the first to lose ground to urban built-environments.
Synonyms
wilderness, desert, waste, barren land, dust bowl
1. 1.1 A bleak, unattractive, and unused or neglected urban or industrial area.
  （城区或工业区的）荒凉之地；废墟
  the restoration of industrial wasteland
  工业废墟的重建。
  figurative the mid 70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland
  〈喻〉70年代中期现在看来有些像一个文化荒漠时期。
  Example sentencesExamples
  My favourite of these are the daffodils which appear everywhere from formal gardens to woodland paths to urban wastelands.
  These wastelands are a big source of pollution and the Ministry of Environment is making it its priority to work on waste recycling and management in Bulgaria.
  He is that rarest of rare breeds, a Tory activist and campaigner who keeps the blue flag flying above the housing schemes and wastelands of Glasgow's east end.
  I drove down streets that once teemed with life and now are ruined wastelands.
  When native film-makers point the camera at their homeland, the post-industrial wastelands of the Clyde are usually somewhere in the background.
  The decaying sports grounds have been turned into wastelands and junkie hangout spots.
  But the most spectacular thing about the Polish Neisse riverbank with its wastelands, hourly hotels and dusty stores is the view of Görlitz.
  A year ago when we drove down the nearby raised road, both sides of the dyke were wastelands covered by small clumps of brush.
  Sections of many US cities are violent urban wastelands.
  Whether it's rusting machinery and industrial wastelands, or ivy-draped columns, ruins are undeniably romantic.
  And they still bear the brunt of urban poverty as single parents in the commercial wastelands that too often are their neighborhoods.
  Like urban garages, car parts shops and so on, such places tend to spring up spontaneously like weeds in wastelands and interstices of cities.
  It's mostly teenagers, but there's youngsters as young as four and five starting fires in the wastelands around the estates.
  Hundreds of homes have already been torn down, leaving wastelands dividing the streets.
  It was shot in 16 mm Cinemascope in the wastelands of Winnipeg's St. Boniface industrial stockyards.
  An immense amount has been built in two areas, both of which were desolate wastelands in 1992 because they had either been underneath or very close to the wall.
  Are the more modest price rises across Britain as a whole merely a reflection of the fact there are huge urban wastelands where no one will ever want to live again?
  Government intervention ensures that intercity areas are well kept and that ethnic ghettos and industrial wastelands do not emerge.
  A government-planning edict has seen derelict urban wastelands transformed into residential and working communities.
  The cross country race features a tight and twisty, yet relatively flat course in the urban wastelands just south of Seatac Airport.

词汇	wasteland
释义	Definition of wasteland in English: wasteland nounˈweɪs(t)ləndˈweɪs(t)landˈweɪs(t)lænd mass noun 1An unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown. 荒地，未开垦地 we'd creep through a hole in the fence on this bit of wasteland and play games in the bushes Example sentencesExamples The trip would comprise of roughly 750 km through the vast Mongolian prairies and the arid wastelands of the Gobi desert. A historical epic set in China's vast northern wastelands would be expensive to make. His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power. The TV-stations have been wastelands for two decades and most newspapers never had any interesting in what was happening abroad. The main alternative to the cattle cure of wastelands is hydroseeding, in which a machine sprays a mixture of seeds and fertilizer onto the barren soil. I seem to wander between the wastelands within as of late. The mountain passes are high and demanding, the climate gives extremes of weather conditions, the infrastructure is primitive and the hidden wastelands are boundless. In the frigid dark silence he sat, the familiar rumble of the transport flooded his ears as they traversed the wastelands, almost lulling him to sleep. A harsh wind blew in from the wastelands, cutting through the damp concrete walls and sending the temperature in the cell down another few degrees. They were denuding the sheep pastures of grass, turning once successful ranches into wastelands and reducing wool production by half. Wood is found in the village's wastelands / countryside, or re-used from the rubble of the houses. It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again. I am dragged through the wastelands of unknown territory for hours until the people that captured me stop. The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans. All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl. The estimates of wastelands range from 76 million hectares to 175 million hectares. These wetlands carelessly almost stupidly classified as wastelands are the first to lose ground to urban built-environments. We drive through flat wastelands of scrub and dust. The new peripheral communities were decried for everything from scarring the landscape to being cultural wastelands. After a period in the rock wastelands during the nineties, he has emerged as a white-haired charmer, with sex appeal to women of a certain age, as they say. Synonyms wilderness, desert, waste, barren land, dust bowl wilds, badlands 1.1also wastelands A bleak and unused or neglected urban or industrial area. （城区或工业区的）荒凉之地；废墟 the restoration of industrial wasteland 工业废墟的重建。 count noun figurative the mid 70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland 〈喻〉70年代中期现在看来有些像一个文化荒漠时期。 Example sentencesExamples He is that rarest of rare breeds, a Tory activist and campaigner who keeps the blue flag flying above the housing schemes and wastelands of Glasgow's east end. Government intervention ensures that intercity areas are well kept and that ethnic ghettos and industrial wastelands do not emerge. It's mostly teenagers, but there's youngsters as young as four and five starting fires in the wastelands around the estates. I drove down streets that once teemed with life and now are ruined wastelands. Whether it's rusting machinery and industrial wastelands, or ivy-draped columns, ruins are undeniably romantic. These wastelands are a big source of pollution and the Ministry of Environment is making it its priority to work on waste recycling and management in Bulgaria. Sections of many US cities are violent urban wastelands. But the most spectacular thing about the Polish Neisse riverbank with its wastelands, hourly hotels and dusty stores is the view of Görlitz. When native film-makers point the camera at their homeland, the post-industrial wastelands of the Clyde are usually somewhere in the background. Hundreds of homes have already been torn down, leaving wastelands dividing the streets. A government-planning edict has seen derelict urban wastelands transformed into residential and working communities. A year ago when we drove down the nearby raised road, both sides of the dyke were wastelands covered by small clumps of brush. Are the more modest price rises across Britain as a whole merely a reflection of the fact there are huge urban wastelands where no one will ever want to live again? An immense amount has been built in two areas, both of which were desolate wastelands in 1992 because they had either been underneath or very close to the wall. Like urban garages, car parts shops and so on, such places tend to spring up spontaneously like weeds in wastelands and interstices of cities. The cross country race features a tight and twisty, yet relatively flat course in the urban wastelands just south of Seatac Airport. My favourite of these are the daffodils which appear everywhere from formal gardens to woodland paths to urban wastelands. The decaying sports grounds have been turned into wastelands and junkie hangout spots. It was shot in 16 mm Cinemascope in the wastelands of Winnipeg's St. Boniface industrial stockyards. And they still bear the brunt of urban poverty as single parents in the commercial wastelands that too often are their neighborhoods. Definition of wasteland in US English: wasteland nounˈweɪs(t)lændˈwās(t)land 1An unused area of land that has become barren or overgrown. 荒地，未开垦地 Example sentencesExamples It only comes out at the outskirts of the land where the barren wasteland ends and things begin to grow again. All of the planet was either polluted seas, barren wastelands, or decaying urban sprawl. The new peripheral communities were decried for everything from scarring the landscape to being cultural wastelands. His countenance was as bleak as the frozen northern wastelands, and he huddled within himself, a wizened husk hoarding unspoken power. A harsh wind blew in from the wastelands, cutting through the damp concrete walls and sending the temperature in the cell down another few degrees. In the frigid dark silence he sat, the familiar rumble of the transport flooded his ears as they traversed the wastelands, almost lulling him to sleep. I seem to wander between the wastelands within as of late. A historical epic set in China's vast northern wastelands would be expensive to make. The estimates of wastelands range from 76 million hectares to 175 million hectares. The trip would comprise of roughly 750 km through the vast Mongolian prairies and the arid wastelands of the Gobi desert. I am dragged through the wastelands of unknown territory for hours until the people that captured me stop. The TV-stations have been wastelands for two decades and most newspapers never had any interesting in what was happening abroad. Wood is found in the village's wastelands / countryside, or re-used from the rubble of the houses. The surface was that of desert and wastelands separated by massive oceans. The mountain passes are high and demanding, the climate gives extremes of weather conditions, the infrastructure is primitive and the hidden wastelands are boundless. After a period in the rock wastelands during the nineties, he has emerged as a white-haired charmer, with sex appeal to women of a certain age, as they say. We drive through flat wastelands of scrub and dust. They were denuding the sheep pastures of grass, turning once successful ranches into wastelands and reducing wool production by half. The main alternative to the cattle cure of wastelands is hydroseeding, in which a machine sprays a mixture of seeds and fertilizer onto the barren soil. These wetlands carelessly almost stupidly classified as wastelands are the first to lose ground to urban built-environments. Synonyms wilderness, desert, waste, barren land, dust bowl 1.1 A bleak, unattractive, and unused or neglected urban or industrial area. （城区或工业区的）荒凉之地；废墟 the restoration of industrial wasteland 工业废墟的重建。 figurative the mid 70s are now seen as something of a cultural wasteland 〈喻〉70年代中期现在看来有些像一个文化荒漠时期。 Example sentencesExamples My favourite of these are the daffodils which appear everywhere from formal gardens to woodland paths to urban wastelands. These wastelands are a big source of pollution and the Ministry of Environment is making it its priority to work on waste recycling and management in Bulgaria. He is that rarest of rare breeds, a Tory activist and campaigner who keeps the blue flag flying above the housing schemes and wastelands of Glasgow's east end. I drove down streets that once teemed with life and now are ruined wastelands. When native film-makers point the camera at their homeland, the post-industrial wastelands of the Clyde are usually somewhere in the background. The decaying sports grounds have been turned into wastelands and junkie hangout spots. But the most spectacular thing about the Polish Neisse riverbank with its wastelands, hourly hotels and dusty stores is the view of Görlitz. A year ago when we drove down the nearby raised road, both sides of the dyke were wastelands covered by small clumps of brush. Sections of many US cities are violent urban wastelands. Whether it's rusting machinery and industrial wastelands, or ivy-draped columns, ruins are undeniably romantic. And they still bear the brunt of urban poverty as single parents in the commercial wastelands that too often are their neighborhoods. Like urban garages, car parts shops and so on, such places tend to spring up spontaneously like weeds in wastelands and interstices of cities. It's mostly teenagers, but there's youngsters as young as four and five starting fires in the wastelands around the estates. Hundreds of homes have already been torn down, leaving wastelands dividing the streets. It was shot in 16 mm Cinemascope in the wastelands of Winnipeg's St. Boniface industrial stockyards. An immense amount has been built in two areas, both of which were desolate wastelands in 1992 because they had either been underneath or very close to the wall. Are the more modest price rises across Britain as a whole merely a reflection of the fact there are huge urban wastelands where no one will ever want to live again? Government intervention ensures that intercity areas are well kept and that ethnic ghettos and industrial wastelands do not emerge. A government-planning edict has seen derelict urban wastelands transformed into residential and working communities. The cross country race features a tight and twisty, yet relatively flat course in the urban wastelands just south of Seatac Airport.
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