badlands

单词badlands

基本解释

n.: （耕作过度的）劣地；巴德兰兹地区（美国西部一处贫瘠地带）
网络: 穷山恶水；恶土；荒地

权威解释

• （耕作过度的）劣地，恶地:

  large areas of land that have been farmed too much with the result that plants will not grow there

• 巴德兰兹地区（美国西部一处贫瘠地带）:

  a large area of land in the western US where plants will not grow

英汉解释

• 〔美国〕荒原,荒瘠不毛地带

• 劣地形

• 不毛之地

例句

• Roosevelt spent much of the next two years on his ranch in the Badlands of Dakota Territory.

  在接下来的两年时间里，他在达科他荒地上的大农场度过。

• Pakistan does, of course, have ungoverned spaces, in the Pashtun-dominated badlands along the border with Afghanistan.

  巴基斯坦当然也没有在和阿富汗交界的普什图人的废地建立统治。

• Wisp grass seedpods sway in the wind in South Dakota"s Badlands National Park.

  一束束草心皮在位于南达科他的国家公园荒地里迎风起舞。

• Once there was a lion which lives in the badlands. He is a small and skinny guy, but he likes to draw.

  从前，在一个遥远的荒野住了一只狮子。狮子的个子比较瘦小，非常热爱画画。

• Cross diverse landscapes & terrains: plains, mountains, desert, badlands, canyons, and forests.

  跨不同的景观和地形：平原，高山，沙漠，荒地，峡谷和森林。

• All together, the Badlands cover more than fifteen thousand square kilometers. About ten percent is national parkland.

  荒地覆盖面积总共一万五千平方公里，大约十分之一是国家公园。

• Red Deer Valley in the spectacular Badlands of Canada shows an abundance of dinosaur fossils below a mysterious thin layer of rock.

  雷德迪尔峡谷的壮观荒地表明加拿大的丰富的恐龙化石的下面一层神秘的薄薄的岩石。

• A foreign-ministry official says mercenaries from the badlands of Tajikistan and Afghanistan were hired.

  外交部一位官员透露政府已经雇佣了来自塔吉克斯坦和阿富汗荒原的佣兵。

• Dubbed the Badlands Guardian, the "face" is actually a valley eroded into the clay.

  它被称之为不毛之地的守护者，这张脸实际上是又一条峡谷侵蚀粘土而成。

• So you always find dinosaurs in deserts or badlands -- areas that have very little plant growth and have flash floods in the spring.

  所以你总是在沙漠或者荒地，那些很少有植物生长，春天又会发大水的地方，才能找到恐龙。