| 词汇 | desolate |
| 释义 | desolate adjective uk /ˈdes.əl.ət/ us /ˈdes.əl.ət/ desolateadjective (EMPTY)A desolate place is empty and not attractive, with no people or nothing pleasant in it: 荒凉的，荒无人烟的 The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape.那所房子坐落在萧瑟荒凉的原野上。 Empty bare barrenly barrenness blank clear view cleared dead emptiness empty flat forlorn hollow lifeless low-traffic nothingness uninhabited unobstructed unoccupied untenanted vacant You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Not attractive to look at desolateadjective (SAD)extremely sad and feeling alone: 孤寂的;伤心寂寞的 feel desolateShe felt desolate when her best friend moved away.她最亲密的朋友搬走了，她感到有些伤心寂寞。 feeling sad and alone lonelyI've been lonely since my friends moved away. lonesomeUSI'm feeling lonesome. isolatedI wouldn't like living out in the country - I'd feel isolated from the rest of the world. forlornThe characters, a flighty heiress and her forlorn suitor, are a delight. lornHe's a lone, lorn creature. desolateAfter the market crash, desolate financiers left the field. Feeling sad and unhappy a long faceidiom abjection angsty be cut upidiom be down in the mouthidiom be in a funkidiom displeased dissatisfied distraught distressed dog lonely lonesome lovelorn lovesick wistful wistfully woe woe is meidiom woebegone Related wordsdesolated desolately desolate | American Dictionarydesolate adjective us/ˈdes·ə·lət/ desolateadjective (EMPTY)(of a place) having no living things; empty: a desolate landscape desolateadjective (SAD)(of a person) extremely sad and feeling alone: When her son left for a year abroad, she felt desolate. Examples of desolatedesolate We have put the use of pre-emptive war as a pretext, and wars of conquest, which desolated our continent for centuries, behind us. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English They have since been desolated or occupied by the enemy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whole villages are being desolated, and families dispersed to other parts of the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is there any sense in creating huge housing estates in industrially desolated areas? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Local people would be desolated if the community hospital no longer existed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here are four urban district councils isolated and desolated, with no means of transport at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The countryside is being desolated and devastated by the existing system. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The characteristic of civil war is that every part of the community that engages in a civil war is desolated and impoverished in that war. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If you take a church and leave it isolated within an area which has already been desolated that church, inevitably, will die. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There will be a scramble back to the desolated places, because people will want to get back to the districts they know and in which they lived for so long. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Two world wars desolated our forests. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The market mechanism alone cannot provide sufficient incentives, from just one of two good annual harvests, to attract population back to the rural areas and to deserted and desolated villages. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The herd was completely desolated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The advocates of the project emphasized the desolate condition of the beach. He too wrote a desolate novel about a martyred woman. See all examples of desolate 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. |
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