hellscape
noun [ C ] uk/ˈhel.skeɪp/ us/ˈhel.skeɪp/
人间地狱
an area that looks extremely unpleasant, especially because everything there has been destroyed, or a picture that represents this
In 2001, the World Trade Center was reduced to a hellscape. 2001年，世界贸易中心沦为人间地狱。
The area is unrecognizable now, a smoking hellscape.
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- People wandered aimlessly about the ghastly hellscape or ran about, crying dementedly.
- The city could become a savage desert hellscape not fit for human life.
- He described the traditional slaughtering ground as a fetid hellscape of flies and foul odours.
- It's not one of those typical video games where you shoot robots in a bleak urban hellscape.