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waste.land5weIst7lAndnan empty area of land in or near a city which is not cultivated or built on, or used in any way荒地The car was dumped in a stretch of wasteland in the south of the city. [U]那辆车被倾倒在城南的一片荒地上。A survey in 1976 suggested that there were then 104, 670 hectares of urban wasteland in Great Britain. [U] 1976年的调查表明那时大不列颠有104, 670公顷的城市荒地。The wastelands are awaiting transformation into neat farms or parks. [C]那些荒地正期待着改造成整洁的农场或者公园。Wasteland can be used to refer to a place, time or situation which lacks anything positive or productive.荒原，荒漠In his later work, Britain's inner cities are depicted as a cultural wasteland.在他的晚期作品当中，英国的内地城市被描绘成了文化荒漠。Their relationship had become an emotional wasteland.他们的关系已经成了一片感情的荒原。This new surge of interest in religion is perhaps a reaction to the the spiritual wasteland of the 1980s.这份对宗教的新的巨大兴趣或许是20世纪80年代精神荒漠的一种反应。
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