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wilderness

/wil-der-nis/US // ˈwɪl dər nɪs //UK // (ˈwɪldənɪs) //

荒野,荒地,旷野,荒原

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wild and uncultivated region, as of forest or desert, uninhabited or inhabited only by wild animals; a tract of wasteland.
    • : a tract of land officially designated as such and protected by the U.S. government.
    • : any desolate tract, as of open sea.
    • : a part of a garden set apart for plants growing with unchecked luxuriance.
    • : a bewildering mass or collection.

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Examples

  • The Clippers — who somehow keep managing to track down canteens in the desert, only to find them empty — now continue on their walk through the wilderness as they enter decade No.

  • Accelerating climate change, development along wilderness boundaries, and rigid forest management practices have all increased the dangers of devastating wildfires in the state and across much of the American West.

  • The places in their network, from Page, Arizona, to Park City, Utah, have seen that they can’t just play off parks or wilderness.

  • Instead the airdrop serves, at great expense, to save trees in the wilderness, where burning, not suppression, might well do more good.

  • Chestnut says that wolverines are sensitive, shy animals that need a lot of help to recolonize the wilderness they were hunted out of.

  • They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.

  • The original metaphor was: erect a wall to keep the garden of the church free from the wilderness of politics.

  • Hold the Dark is set in the Alaskan wilderness, in an isolated village at the lip of the tundra.

  • I went back while Lorne [Michaels] was on his 5-year jaunt in the wilderness, and Ebersol was producing.

  • In short, the wilderness skills and outdoor abilities that the founding mothers intended.

  • And it shall devour the mountains, and burn the wilderness, and consume all that is green as with fire.

  • Never did I feel leaving anybody or any place so much, and Berlin seems to me like a great roaring wilderness.

  • That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

  • When one thinks in the wilderness, alone, Felipe, many things become clear.

  • Next day they buried him under the shade of a spreading tree, and left him there—alone in the wilderness.

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