wilderness
荒野,荒地,旷野,荒原
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Definitions
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- : 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 , and consume all that is green as with fire.