BAD LANDSとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makhóšiča from makhó (“land”) and šiča (“bad”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈbæd.lændz/

名詞

badlands (plural badlands)

1. (geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.

   Synonym: malpais

   • 1904, Israel C. Russell, North America, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 111:

     Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists.

   • 1922, John Dos Passos, “A Novelist of Revolution”, in Rosinante to the Road Again, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 85:

     No one has ever described better the shaggy badlands and cabbage-patches round the edges of a city, where the debris of civilization piles up ramshackle suburbs in which starve and scheme all manner of human detritus.

派生した語

• → Esperanto: badlandoj
• → German: Badlands
• → French: badlands
• → Spanish: badlands

参考

• desert
• moonscape

Further reading

• badlands on Wikipedia.Wikipedia