English Dictionary

dustbowl

noun

An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry. / The central region of the United States during the 1930s. / The 1930s period.

The dustbowl devastated the agricultural industry in the 1930s.

意味（1）

An area which abounds in dust and which is very dry.

Concepts like reform, sanctions or KwaNatal indabas have little meaning in this dustbowl, which is host to more than a million people relocated from white farms and black spots in Natal, apart from the hundreds of thousands who lived there before the removals started here in the Sixties.

意味（2）

The central region of the United States during the 1930s.

Because of this general situation, namely, the factor that thousands of citizens in California because of evictions and suspension of income were forced to move into squatter camps, and that these squatter camps were to some extent used by the state and county for the purpose of segregating the destitute unemployed, many such communities were actually in existence in California by 1933 when the dustbowl influx began to make itself felt in this state.

意味（3）

The 1930s period.