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.
例句
...the cultural wasteland of Franco's repressive rule...佛朗哥高壓統治下的文化貧瘠Everything was wrong, his life seemed to be a wasteland.每件事都不對勁，他的生活百無聊賴。