dust bowl

1. N-COUNT 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. (尤指在美國南部或中部的)風沙浸蝕區[美國英語]

...the same fate that befell the midwestern dust bowl in the thirties. ...三十年代發生在中西部風沙浸蝕區的相同命運。