1. My friend told me that the place she lived was a cultural wasteland.
    我的朋友告诉我她住的地方文化生活贫乏。

2. Nothing grows on the wasteland.
    荒原上什么也不长。

3. Plans are already made to develop the wasteland.
    开发这片未开垦地的规划已经制定。

1. 荒地, 未开垦地, 废墟, (生活方式等的)贫乏：inelastic event 非弹性相互作用 | wasteland 荒地, 未开垦地, 废墟, (生活方式等的)贫乏 | dynatron [电] 三极管, [物]中间子

1. 荒地;荒原;不毛之地
    A wasteland is an area of land on which not much can grow or which has been spoiled in some way.

    e.g. The pollution has already turned vast areas into a wasteland.
           污染已经使大片地区沦为不毛之地。
    e.g. ...a 1 billion scheme which was to transform the wasteland of London''s docks.
           耗资10亿英镑的旨在改造伦敦港区荒地的计划

2. (地方、情形或时期的)沉闷乏味，单调
    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.

    e.g. ...the cultural wasteland of Franco''s repressive rule...
           佛朗哥高压统治下的文化贫瘠
    e.g. Everything was wrong, his life seemed to be a wasteland.
           每件事都不对劲，他的生活百无聊赖。

1. an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation

    e.g. the barrens of central Africa
           the trackless wastes of the desert

    Synonym: barrenwaste