N-COUNT (尤指在美国南部或中部的)风沙浸蚀区A dust bowl is an area of land, especially in the southern or central United States, that is dry and arid because the soil has been eroded by the wind. (尤指在美国南部或中部的)风沙浸蚀区 [US]
...the same fate that befell the midwestern dust bowl in the thirties.