wilderness
noun /ˈwɪldənəs/
/ˈwɪldərnəs/
[usually singular]- a large area of land that has never been developed or used for growing crops because it is difficult to live there
未开发的地区；荒无人烟的地区；荒野 - The Antarctic is the world's last great wilderness.
南极洲是世界上最后一个大荒原。 - (North American English) a wilderness area (= one where it is not permitted to build houses or roads)
（政府划定的）保留自然环境面貌地区 - (figurative) the barren wilderness of modern life
现代生活贫瘠的荒漠
- He depicted the frontier as a howling wilderness inhabited by uncivilized savages.
在他的描写中，边疆是个荒芜之地，住着一些未开化的野蛮人。 - The trail passes through a federally designated wilderness.
这条小路途经联邦政府划定的荒野区。 - They set out to explore the continent's last great wilderness.
他们出发去该大陆上最后一块未开发的大荒原探险。 - We were hopelessly lost in the wilderness.
我们在荒野中完全迷失了方向。 - officially designated wilderness areas and wildlife refuges
官方划定的荒野地区和野生动物保护区 - The US Department of Agriculture designated the land a wilderness area in 1978.
1978年美国农业部将这片土地划定为自然环境保留地区。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- last
- great
- vast
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- tame
- transform
- explore
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- area
- preservation
- protection
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- in the wilderness
- The Antarctic is the world's last great wilderness.
- a place that people do not take care of or control
荒芜的地方；杂草丛生处 - Their garden is a wilderness of grass and weeds.
他们的花园杂草丛生。 - That part of the city is a wilderness of run-down houses and derelict factories.
该市的那一区域很荒僻，到处是破败的住房和废弃的工厂。 - They transformed the wilderness into a garden.
他们把荒地变成了花园。
- Their garden is a wilderness of grass and weeds.
- a position that is no longer important, especially in politics
在野；不再当政（或掌权） - the man who brought the party back from the political wilderness
使该党重获执政地位的人 - in the wilderness After three years in the wilderness she was given a government post.
在荒野中生活了三年后，她被任命为政府官员。 - His wilderness years (= when he was out of politics and the public eye) in the 1990s were spent in Canada.
20 世纪 90 年代他在加拿大度过了坐冷板凳的日子。
- the man who brought the party back from the political wilderness
词源Old English wildēornes ‘land inhabited only by wild animals’, from wild dēor ‘wild deer’ + -ness.