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

• Decades of rapid growth in manufacturing with loose or no environmental standards has turned parts of the island into industrial wastelands.
  数十年来制造业在宽松（或缺失的）环保标准下高速发展，已使岛上的部分地区变为工业废地。
• 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。
• The revegetation of the mining wastelands during the ecological restoration is expounded, and two issues are mainly analyzed: improvement of soil matrix and selection of plant species.
  阐述了矿业废弃地生态恢复中的植被重建，主要对植被恢复中基质改良和植物种类选择两个环节进行了分析。
• As shown in the study, the main obstacles in soil media amelioration of the coal mining wastelands are poor physical structure of the mined soil and extremely disproportional nutrient contents, especially the lack of N element.
  研究表明，该煤矿废弃地基质改良的主要障碍是矿土不良的物理结构和极为不均衡的养分含量，尤其是氮素缺乏。
• Discard the urban industrial wastelands, not only designs and creates the new view in the landscape designer's task, lie in the renewal of the landscape and utilize now more importantly.
  面对城市工业废弃场地，景观设计师的任务不仅是设计和创造新的景观，更重要在于景观的更新和再利用。
• In Northeast china, woodblock printing was first used to describe the life of exploration to document in the wastelands, and then to document social organization and daily life.
  在东北部边陲，也有一支版画创作劲旅，起初以表现北大荒垦荒生活为主，以后又反映了社会建设和生活。
• The mining wastelands, which spread wide and bring serious environment pollution and ecological destruction.
  矿区废弃地分布广、污染严重，易造成生态环境的恶化；
• 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。
• With the decline of traditional industries and the "retreat into three" of the industrial structure adjustment, industrial wastelands in our country have gradually become the fragile part of city development and ecological improvement.
  伴随着传统工业的衰落和退二进三的产业结构调整，我国的工业废弃地逐渐成为城市发展和生态改善的硬伤。
• This kind of landscape reconstruction method not only suitable for Zhuzhou Qingshui lake industrial wastelands but also can be a reference for the others cities.
  这一工业废弃地景观重塑途径不仅适合株洲市清水湖工业废弃地景观重塑项目，而且可以为其它工业废弃地景观重塑提供参考。