荒原 (huāngyuán): wasteland

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一片荒原 piàn

他们穿越了一片广阔的荒原。

Tāmen chuānyuè le yīpiàn guǎngkuò de huāngyuán.

They crossed a vast stretch of wasteland.

战争过后，这里变成了一片荒原。

Zhànzhēng guòhòu, zhèlǐ biànchéng le yīpiàn huāngyuán.

After the war, this place turned into a wasteland.

荒原 Huāngyuán

The Waste Land — landmark modernist poem by T.S. Eliot (1922), depicting spiritual desolation after World War I.

poem

荒 huāng

原 yuán