wasteland

1. N-VAR A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way. 荒地

The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland. 污染已使大片地区变为荒原。

2. N-COUNT 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. (精神上或文化上的) 荒原[表不满]

...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule. …佛朗哥残暴统治下的文化荒原。