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单词 moonscape
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Definition of moonscape in English:

moonscape

noun ˈmuːnskeɪpˈmunˌskeɪp
  • A landscape resembling the surface of the moon, especially in being rocky and barren.

    月面景色;月面风景画;似月面的崎岖不平景色

    the pock-marked moonscape around the old colliery
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's like a moonscape - there's nothing living down there.
    • It was one of the worst horrors of my life, for the forests through which I had walked were totally gone, replaced by a bare and barren moonscape without a tree.
    • In the months that followed, Plymouth was buried by as much as 30 feet of ash, and the once green southern slopes of Montserrat were transformed into an eerie grey moonscape, almost devoid of life.
    • The roads here are like moonscapes and we don't know anything about the drainage.
    • As you drift northwards and deeper, the spurs and gullies give way to a moonscape of boulders.
    • The work takes planters to the most damaged lands, where clearcutting or wildfires have left moonscapes of the ecosystem.
    • The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
    • We clamber up over rocks onto a barren, boulder-strewn moonscape where we pick up speed.
    • The terrain resembled a moonscape, devoid of vegetation.
    • With the forest kaput, erosion creates a tropic moonscape of barren hillsides.
    • Where Charles used to operate a small ferry the Salt River is now vacant land, a moonscape of cobbles and sand.
    • Up to 90 percent of the coral island is unusable, resembling a moonscape, after mining stripped away its lucrative phosphate deposits.
    • The trees thinned, dirt gave way to snow, the trail disappeared, and we slipped and slid and slithered through a narrow pass before entering a moonscape of rocky peaks and ice-rimmed lakes.
    • The Rangers now advance through a moonscape of craters and smashed gun positions.
    • The best way to describe that area is to say that it is like a moonscape of mud.
    • The ancient rivers and lakes were teeming with life, a far cry from the dry moonscape of the site today.
    • The landscape changes from lush, tree-covered mountains to a barren moonscape, the result of a mining practice called mountaintop removal.
    • From 1987 to 1991, drought turned much of the plain into a moonscape.
    • Fish and whole forests died and water became non-potable, turning 30 kilometres of the river system into a moonscape.
    • At low tide it's empty, a desolate moonscape of gray glacial silt dotted by glistening tide pools.

Definition of moonscape in US English:

moonscape

nounˈmo͞onˌskāpˈmunˌskeɪp
  • A landscape having features characteristic of the surface of the moon, especially in being rocky and barren.

    月面景色;月面风景画;似月面的崎岖不平景色

    regrowth on the once-barren moonscape around Mount St. Helens
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was one of the worst horrors of my life, for the forests through which I had walked were totally gone, replaced by a bare and barren moonscape without a tree.
    • In the months that followed, Plymouth was buried by as much as 30 feet of ash, and the once green southern slopes of Montserrat were transformed into an eerie grey moonscape, almost devoid of life.
    • The landscape changes from lush, tree-covered mountains to a barren moonscape, the result of a mining practice called mountaintop removal.
    • As you drift northwards and deeper, the spurs and gullies give way to a moonscape of boulders.
    • It's like a moonscape - there's nothing living down there.
    • The terrain resembled a moonscape, devoid of vegetation.
    • The work takes planters to the most damaged lands, where clearcutting or wildfires have left moonscapes of the ecosystem.
    • Up to 90 percent of the coral island is unusable, resembling a moonscape, after mining stripped away its lucrative phosphate deposits.
    • The ancient rivers and lakes were teeming with life, a far cry from the dry moonscape of the site today.
    • At low tide it's empty, a desolate moonscape of gray glacial silt dotted by glistening tide pools.
    • Fish and whole forests died and water became non-potable, turning 30 kilometres of the river system into a moonscape.
    • The roads here are like moonscapes and we don't know anything about the drainage.
    • The region's slickrock, sandstone from long-gone seabeds, is a moonscape of crinkles and undulations that make for exhilarating riding.
    • With the forest kaput, erosion creates a tropic moonscape of barren hillsides.
    • From 1987 to 1991, drought turned much of the plain into a moonscape.
    • We clamber up over rocks onto a barren, boulder-strewn moonscape where we pick up speed.
    • The best way to describe that area is to say that it is like a moonscape of mud.
    • Where Charles used to operate a small ferry the Salt River is now vacant land, a moonscape of cobbles and sand.
    • The trees thinned, dirt gave way to snow, the trail disappeared, and we slipped and slid and slithered through a narrow pass before entering a moonscape of rocky peaks and ice-rimmed lakes.
    • The Rangers now advance through a moonscape of craters and smashed gun positions.
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