A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way.
双语例句
例：
The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland.
污染已使大片地区变为荒原。
2.?[C 可数名词] （精神上或文化上的）荒原
If you refer to a place, situation, or period in time as a wasteland, you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it.
近义词
desert
双语例句
例：
the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule.