desolate
desolate 英 [ˈdesələt] 美 [ˈdɛsəlɪt]
adj. 荒凉的；无人烟的 vt. 使荒凉；使孤寂
进行时:desolating 过去式:desolated 过去分词:desolated 第三人称单数:desolates
- If you feel alone, left out, and devastated, you feel desolate. A deserted, empty, depressing place can be desolate too.
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- adj. 荒凉的；无人烟的
- vt. 使荒凉；使孤寂
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1. So how do they escape these desolate canyons?
那么他们又怎样逃出这荒凉的峡谷呢？
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2. We still dwell in the Valley of the Shadow, lurk in its desolate places, peering from brambles and thickets at its mad, malign inhabitants.
我们依旧在影子的峡谷里生存，埋伏在荒凉的地方，从荆棘和丛林中凝视着，去诽谤那里的居民。
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3. Still, the odds were against their encounter on this desolate island, and if Jackson had not appeared when he did, Nansen and Johansen in all likelihood would have died.
尽管如此，他们在这个荒凉的岛上相遇的几率仍然极低，而如果杰克逊没有出现在那里的话，南森和约翰森很有可能就会长眠于当地。
- desolate (adj.) mid-14c., "without companions," also "uninhabited," from Latin desolatus, past participle of desolare "leave alone, desert," from de- "completely" (see de-) + solare "make lonely," from solus "alone" (see sole (adj.)). Sense of "joyless" is 15c.
- desolate (v.) late 14c., from desolate (adj.). Related: Desolated; desolating.
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