desert
desert 英 [ˈdezət] 美 [ˈdezərt]
v. 抛弃，舍弃 n. 沙漠；荒原
进行时:deserting 过去式:deserted 过去分词:deserted 第三人称单数:deserts 名词复数:deserts
- A desert is a very dry area of land where few plants and animals can live. If you find yourself stranded in the middle of the desert, you'll have no company except for the occasional lizard or scorpion.
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- v. 抛弃，舍弃
- n. 沙漠；荒原
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1. the Sahara Desert
撒哈拉大沙漠
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2. Somalia is mostly desert.
索马里大部份地区都是荒漠。
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3. burning desert sands
沙漠里灼热的沙
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4. a cultural desert
文化沙漠
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5. She was deserted by her husband.
她被丈夫遗弃了。
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6. The villages had been deserted.
这些村庄已经荒无人烟了。
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7. Why did you desert teaching for politics?
你为什么弃教从政呢？
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8. Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.
她一时间似乎失去了勇气。
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9. She felt betrayed by her husband's desertion.
她感到丈夫遗弃她辜负了她的心。
- desert (n.1) "wasteland," early 13c., from Old French desert (12c.) "desert, wilderness, wasteland; destruction, ruin," from Late Latin desertum (source of Italian diserto, Old Provençal dezert, Spanish desierto), literally "thing abandoned" (used in Vulgate to translate "wilderness"), noun use of neuter past participle of Latin deserere "forsake" (see desert (v.)).
- desert (n.2) "suitable reward or punishment" (now usually plural and with just), c. 1300, from Old French deserte, noun use of past participle of deservir "be worthy to have," ultimately from Latin deservire "serve well" (see deserve).
- desert (v.) "to leave one's duty," late 14c., from Old French deserter (12c.) "leave," literally "undo or sever connection," from Late Latin desertare, frequentative of Latin deserere "to abandon, to leave, forsake, give up, leave in the lurch," from de- "undo" (see de-) + serere "join together, put in a row" (from PIE root *ser- (2) "to line up"). Military sense is first recorded 1640s. Related: Deserted; deserting.
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