wilderness

名词 wilderness:

1. (politics) a state of disfavor
2. a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War
3. a wild and uninhabited area left in its natural condition
   同义词：wild
4. a bewildering profusion

1. They cleaved a path through the wilderness.
   他们在荒原中开辟出一条路。
2. Abraham rose early in the morning, took some food and a waterskin full of water and gave it to Hagar; he set the child on her shoulder and sent her away, and she went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
   亚伯拉罕第二天一早起来，拿了些食物和一皮袋水给夏甲。他让孩子伏在夏甲户上送好上路。她走到别是巴荒野里迷了路。
3. From his attic window he looked out over a wilderness of roofs.
   从他阁楼的窗子望出去，他看到一大片屋顶。

wil.der.ness

n.（名词）
An unsettled, uncultivated region left in its natural condition, especially:
荒野，荒地：保留天然条件的无人定居的未开垦地区，尤指：
A large wild tract of land covered with dense vegetation or forests.
草木丛生处：植被或森林覆盖的大片野生土地
An extensive area, such as a desert or an ocean, that is barren or empty; a waste.
荒野：大片土地, 例如沙漠、海洋，这些地区贫脊或空旷；荒野
A piece of land set aside to grow wild.
划出的一块不耕种的地
Something characterized by bewildering vastness, perilousness, or unchecked profusion:
令人困惑的东西：以令人迷惑的广大、危险四伏或没有扼制的浪费为特点的东西：
例句：
the wilderness of the city; the wilderness of counterespionage; a wilderness of voices.
城市令人困惑不解的地方；反间谍的复杂状况；声音噪乱

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old English *wilddôornes
源自 古英语 *wilddôornes
probably from wilddôor [wild beast]
可能源自 wilddôor [野兽]
wilde [wild]
wilde [野生的]
dôor [wild animal]
dôor [野生动物]

<注释>Deer comes from the Old English word dôor, meaning .beast.. Clearly the word has narrowed in meaning and lost its general sense.But another word in English,wilderness, may point to this general sense of Old English dôor. The etymology ofwilderness is variously given, but one etymology traces the-der- of wilderness back to dôor and wild- back to Old English wilde, .wild.. Der- may thus carry on dôor in its general sense, reminding us that wild beasts might be the only inhabitants of a wilderness.Wilderness, though it may have existed in Old English, is first found in 3th-century Middle English.
Deer 来自于古英语中意为.野兽.的一词 deor 。 很明显这个词的词义缩小了，失去了它较笼统的意义。但英语中的另一个词wilderness, 大概会指出古英语中 deor 的笼统意义。 wilderness 的词源很多， 但一种说法顺着wilderness 中的 -der- 找到 deor ，顺着 wild- 中找到古英语中的 wilde .野蛮的.。 Der- 大概因此具有笼统意义上的 deor 的意义， 提醒我们野兽大概是荒野处的唯一居民。Wilderness 尽管在古英语中已存在， 但是在3世纪中世纪英语中首次出现的