English Dictionary

wasteland

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈweɪs(t)ˌland/

名詞

A place with no remaining resources; a desert. / Any barren or uninteresting place. / A devastated, not (or no longer) habitable area.

日本語の意味

資源が枯渇している土地、砂漠のような場所 / 不毛で魅力のない場所 / 破壊され、居住が困難または不可能な地域

After decades of mining and drought, the valley had become a lifeless wasteland where nothing could grow.

数十年にわたる採掘と干ばつのため、その谷は何も育たない無気力で資源の残らない不毛の地になってしまった。

意味（1）

A place with no remaining resources; a desert.

Ten years of drought had left the area a wasteland.

意味（2）

Any barren or uninteresting place.

After his experiences, he no longer found western Kansas such a wasteland.

意味（3）

A devastated, not (or no longer) habitable area.

How many nuclear missiles would have to be launched at the United States to turn it into a complete wasteland?

wastelands （ plural ）