(A piece of) waste or unowned land; an uninhabited or desolate area.
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释义 | the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [noun] > unproductive place (6) no man's landc1350 (A piece of) waste or unowned land; an uninhabited or desolate area. wilderness1594 transferred or gen. A waste or desolate region of any kind, e.g. of open sea, of air. wastage1823 Scottish. A ruined or deserted place; also, a waste piece of ground. Sahara1855 transferred and figurative. A desert, wilderness. wasteland1869 transferred and figurative, sometimes with allusion to T. S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land (1922). dead zone1902 An area where no life (of a particular kind) exists, or can exist. Also: an area where access is restricted or forbidden, a no-go area. Frequently… |
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