badlands
/ˈbædlændz/plural noun
1- extensive tracts of heavily eroded, uncultivable land with little vegetation（侵蚀而成的）贫瘠地带, 不毛之地。
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Badlands
a barren plateau region of the western US, mainly in North and South Dakota and Nebraska（美国西部南、北达科他州和内布拉斯加州的）荒漠高原区。
词源
mid 19th cent. (originally US)： translation of French mauvaises terres.