| 词汇 | desert |
| 释义 | desert noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈdez.ət/ us /ˈdez.ɚt/ A2 an area, often covered with sand or rocks, where there is very little rain and not many plants: 沙漠，荒漠 in the desertThey were lost in the desert for nine days.他们在沙漠里迷路已经有9天了。 We had to cross a large area of arid, featureless desert.我们必须穿越一大片干燥荒芜的沙漠。 the desert sun沙漠里的太阳 35007/E+/GettyImages cultural, intellectual, etc. desertdisapproving a place that is considered to have no cultural, intellectual, etc. quality or interest: 文化（知识等）沙漠 This town is a cultural desert.这个城镇是一片文化沙漠。 The flatness of the desert was broken only by a few large piles of rocks.沙漠看上去很是平坦，仅有几大堆石头点缀其中。 She gave a hair-raising account of her escape through the desert.她讲述了自己穿越沙漠的脱险经历。 Living rough in the desert hardened the recruits a lot. The terrorists assumed control of the plane and forced it to land in the desert.恐怖分子控制了飞机，并使其迫降在沙漠中。 At night, adult scorpions prowl the desert for insects. Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses alpine tundra brush bush Bushman dust bowl grassland heath heathland marginal land moor mulga pasture plain prairie the Gobi Desert veld virgin wadi waste wasteland GrammarGeographical places We use the before the names of rivers. We usually write the without a capital letter. If we use the word river, we usually write it without a capital letter: the river Thames, the river Severn, the Yangtze river. … desert verb uk /dɪˈzɜːt/ us /dɪˈzɝːt/ desertverb (RUN AWAY)[ I or T ] to leave the armed forces without permission and with no intention of returning: 开小差，当逃兵;擅离（部队） Soldiers who deserted and were caught were shot.抓回来的逃兵被枪毙了。 desert fromHow many people desert from the army each year?每年军队有多少逃兵？ Joining or leaving the army absent without leave anti-draft buy buy someone out call call someone up cashier commission conscript conscription deserter desertion draft draft dodger enlistment join up re-enlist re-enlistment re-up recruit You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Disloyalty, betrayal & treason desertverb (LEAVE BEHIND)[ T ] to leave someone without help or in a difficult situation and not come back: 抛弃，丢弃 desert someone for someoneHe deserted his wife and family for another woman.他为了另一个女人抛家弃子。 [ T ] If a quality deserts you, you suddenly and temporarily lose it: 失去，丧失 All my confidence/courage deserted me when I walked into the exam.进入考场后，我的全部信心／勇气都丧失了。 Departing abandon abandon ship abandonment absquatulate backward move outgoing p.o.q. peel away/off piss off pull pull out pull something off sea track turf something out vacate vamoose walk walk off (somewhere) You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Losing and loss desert | American Dictionarydesert verb[ T ] us/dɪˈzɜrt/ to leave someone or something without help or in a difficult situation: Local people deserted the city as hordes of tourists arrived. If you desert the armed forces, you leave without permission and with no intention of returning: He denied that he had deserted his post. desert noun[ C/U ] us/ˈdez·ərt/ a large, dry area where there is very little rain and few plants: [ U ]When you live in the desert, water is your most vital resource. Examples of desertdesert Or possibly fortitude is primarily shaped by genetics, rather than early environment, but that is even less plausible as grounds for just deserts. He takes the side that the desert base must be one for which the individual is responsible. This is problematic to the extent that one thinks that desert necessarily involves a ground for which the agent is morally responsible. But such organized resistance was rare, and once called up, few soldiers dodged conscription and even fewer deserted. Moreover, measuring the extent of a person's desert of punishment requires addressing difficult epistemological questions about excusing and mitigating circumstances. Determining whether the epistemological argument's assumptions about desert are in fact correct would take us far afield. Ordinary citizens, as voters, would desert centrist parties and transfer their allegiance to the extremes. Numerous farms and entire villages were deserted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and not one single market town was founded between 1350 and 1400. They sit on the least viable chunk of desert and scrub that exists. They are meant to reclaim place from the desert of non-place and, in the process, serve as monuments against forgetting. Such accumulations are observed in certain desert environments on earth. The second objection accepts the legitimacy of assessing desert by interpersonal comparisons, but says that the pragmatic theory is inaccurate even on its own terms. The rule of law was taking hold in both the settled zone and the desert. My paper, then, is based on archaeology in the sense that it comes from a study of extant deserted settlements and relic and current landscapes. The path has been deserted since the logging in the late 1960s and is now only occasionally used by researchers and visitors. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withdesertdesertThese are words often used in combination with desert. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. barren desert There is barren desert in the north, but rich in nitrate, copper and other minerals, and with a sea rich in fish. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 desert landscape This ancient desert landscape and its biological communities have very little natural ability to recover from disturbance. desert shrub The area is a desert shrub or pinyon-juniper woodland plant community. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with desert |
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