英 [ˈweɪstlænd] 美 [ˈweɪstlænd]
n. 荒地，不毛之地；未开垦地，荒漠；（精神或文化上的）贫乏
wasteland /ˈweɪstˌlænd/ CET6+
有变体名词 A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way. 荒地
The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland.
污染已使大片地区变为荒原。
可数名词 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. (精神上或文化上的) 荒原
...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule.
…佛朗哥残暴统治下的文化荒原。
荒地
wasteland(废墟), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
《废土2》（Wasteland 2）是一款以大灾变后的世界为背景设定..
... 指用作燃料、饲料的干草〖hay〗 未开垦过的荒地〖wasteland〗 文书的底稿;初稿〖draft〗 ...
... 住所;处所〖dwellingplace;location〗 通“墟”。故城;废址;废墟;荒地〖ruins;wasteland〗 乡村市集〖countryfair〗 ...
[农]荒地，不毛之地；未开垦地，荒漠；（精神或文化上的）贫乏
The mid 1970s are seen as a cultural wasteland for rock music.
20世纪70年代中期被视为摇滚乐的文化荒漠。
The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland.
污染已使大片地区变为荒原。
From an airplane over a hilly wasteland a scientist sent back by radio one word, "Uranium".
一位科学家从一架小山丘陵地上的飞机上，通过无线电发送了一个单词，“铀”。
The X-15 flies high over the sandy wasteland of California's Mojave Desert.
VOA : special.2010.07.07
This is not a wasteland of thought by any means, and the Russian formalists are an important part of what's going on.
俄国并不是一座思想的废都，形式主义者是思想界很重要的一个部分。
文学理论导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
So first I want to read to you the footnote to T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland.
首先给你们读一段艾略特的《荒原》的脚注。
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
In bad times, the desert turns into a barren wasteland, challenging the survival skills of even the hardiest of people and their animals.
VOA : standard.2009.10.06
Brink, like other recovery workers, used his hands to scour through a wasteland of debris.
So, I think Wasteland further convinced me of the power of transparency in communication.
FORBES: Words From The Wasteland: InXile CEO Brian Fargo Talks Tides and Torments
The scene is surreal, even unreal, they say -- the picture of a post-nuclear wasteland.
Wasteland是augustana 演唱歌曲，出自专辑：《All The Stars And Boulevards》。