Wilderness
['wɪldənɪs] or ['wɪldɚnəs]
解释:
(noun.) a bewildering profusion; 'the duties of citizenship are lost sight of in the wilderness of interests of individuals and groups'; 'a wilderness of masts in the harbor'.
(noun.) a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition; 'it was a wilderness preserved for the hawks and mountaineers'.
(noun.) a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War.
(noun.) (politics) a state of disfavor; 'he led the Democratic party back from the wilderness'.
手打:鲁迪--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.
(v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.
(v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Wild, desert, waste.
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例句:
- He has been something of a voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that did not understand its own message. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Leave this wilderness, it was said to me, and go out hence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- He puts his trust in a snow-cloud; the wilderness, the wind, and the hail-storm are his refuge; his allies are the elements--air, fire, water. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Our losses in the Wilderness were very severe. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- How sharply its pinnacled angles and its wilderness of spires were cut against the sky, and how richly their shadows fell upon its snowy roof! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- From there to Fredericksburg he had the use of the two roads above described running nearly parallel to the Wilderness. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- In fancy we shall see Milan again, and her stately Cathedral with its marble wilderness of graceful spires. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Warren followed Wilson and reached the Wilderness Tavern by noon, took position there and intrenched. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- For the balance of the day and all the following night we raced across that ochre wilderness with the pursuers at our back ever gaining upon us. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- As a consequence, the wilderness blossoms as a rose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- In fact, nowhere after the battle of the Wilderness did Lee show any disposition to leave his defences far behind him. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- She was a child again--and had wandered back through a forty years' wilderness to her convent garden. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She spoke quietly and looked at the wilderness of sand and mist with steady, thoughtful eyes. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- With as much ease as I was told to go into this wilderness. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- Rocky wildernesses and barren fields suddenly became Eldorados. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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