2N-COUNT [oft adjective NOUN](地方、情形或时期的)沉闷乏味,单调 If you refer to a place, situation, or period in time as a wasteland, you are criticizing it because you think there is nothing interesting or exciting in it. (地方、情形或时期的)沉闷乏味,单调 [disapproval]
...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule. [+ of]
佛朗哥高压统治下的文化贫瘠
Everything was wrong, his life seemed to be a wasteland.