名詞 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
   同義詞：wild
4. a bewildering profusion

1. They cleaved a path through the wilderness.
   他們在荒原中開辟出一條路。
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.
   亞伯拉罕第二天一早起來，拿了些食物和一皮袋水給夏甲。他讓孩子伏在夏甲戶上送好上路。她走到別是巴荒野里迷了路。
3. From his attic window he looked out over a wilderness of roofs.
   從他閣樓的窗子望出去，他看到一大片屋頂。

wil.der.ness

n.（名詞）
An unsettled, uncultivated region left in its natural condition, especially:
荒野，荒地：保留天然條件的無人定居的未開墾地區(qū)，尤指：
A large wild tract of land covered with dense vegetation or forests.
草木叢生處：植被或森林覆蓋的大片野生土地
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，這些地區(qū)貧脊或空曠；荒野
A piece of land set aside to grow wild.
劃出的一塊不耕種的地
Something characterized by bewildering vastness, perilousness, or unchecked profusion:
令人困惑的東西：以令人迷惑的廣大、危險四伏或沒有扼制的浪費為特點的東西：
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；反間諜的復雜狀況；聲音噪亂

來源：
Middle English
中古英語
from Old English *wilddôornes
源自 古英語 *wilddôornes
probably from wilddôor [wild beast]
可能源自 wilddôor [野獸]
wilde [wild]
wilde [野生的]
dôor [wild animal]
dôor [野生動物]

<注釋>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 來自于古英語中意為.野獸.的一詞 deor 。 很明顯這個詞的詞義縮小了，失去了它較籠統(tǒng)的意義。但英語中的另一個詞wilderness, 大概會指出古英語中 deor 的籠統(tǒng)意義。 wilderness 的詞源很多， 但一種說法順著wilderness 中的 -der- 找到 deor ，順著 wild- 中找到古英語中的 wilde .野蠻的.。 Der- 大概因此具有籠統(tǒng)意義上的 deor 的意義， 提醒我們野獸大概是荒野處的唯一居民。Wilderness 盡管在古英語中已存在， 但是在3世紀中世紀英語中首次出現(xiàn)的