wilderness
大学受験荒野
意味
- 《the wilderness》《古》荒れ地,荒野
- 果てしない広がり
- 《a wilderness》多数,無数(の…)《+of+名》
例文
The newcomers cultivated the immense wilderness.
新たな入植者達がその広大な荒野を開拓した。
There is nothing here but remote wilderness.
ここには人里離れた荒野のほかに何もありません。
Hunting game is forbidden in this tranquil wilderness.
この静かな原野で狩猟をすることは禁止されています。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English wildernes, wildernesse (“desolate or uninhabited place, desolation”) [and other forms], and then either: * from Middle English wilderne (“deserted or uninhabited place, wilderness; land not yet settled”) [and other forms] (from Old English wilddeōren (“savage, wild”); see below) + -nes, -nesse (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states); or * from Old English *wildēornes, *wilddēornes, either from wilddēor (“wild animal”) [and other forms] or wilddēoren (“savage, wild”) (from wilddēor + -en (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘consisting of; material made of’)) + -nes (suffix forming abstract nouns denoting qualities or states).