| 词汇 | example_english_desolate |
| 释义 | Examples of desolateThese 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. 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. Enough of this excursion into desolate counterfactual landscapes. We saw a few tufts of grass, but for the most part the land was bare and totally desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The border is extremely long, and meanders over desolate land and, frequently, mountainous country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How are the proposers to decide that because an area is somewhat desolate it has no value? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There could be no place more desolate, more despairing and more awful to see in the whole world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole district is absolutely desolate, and it is a necessitous area if ever there was a necessitous and destitute area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my opinion it must be a most desolate place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They tend to be on relatively open, high, desolate plateaux because, after all, that is what makes a good airfield. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Desolate, miserable, crime ridden inner-city areas have been transformed into thriving communities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are all desolate and deserted; where the clansmen used to live. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result was that area after area of dockland fell desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Half the 3 million unemployed are under 25, many of them desolate and with pent-up emotions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have great areas in this country which have been destroyed and are derelict and desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rectory is now closed and is in a desolate condition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We found lousy schools in beautiful leafy suburbs, and we found first class schools in run down, desolate slums. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A thousand acres, which employed 30 or 40 men in cultivation, became nothing more than a desolate wilderness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here, lacking a sense of purpose, desolate and frightened, they seek those in similar straits since the option of family support is no longer there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is £10,000 for married officers with such an enormous garrison scattered about that bleak and desolate plain? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are categorically opposed to the completion of two reactors which are already in an absolutely desolate condition and cannot be properly completed. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Unfortunately, we were able to confirm the desolate situation regarding the administration and control of the funds distributed there. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Of course, she is meant to be a rather desolate-looking person. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rougher and more desolate the country the better it is for the purposes of horse breeding. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Once the people have gone, they will never return and the villages will be desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The solution was to blow it up and leave the area desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are derelict and desolate and there is a lot of work that could be done to make them more attractive. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In spite of that, however, the works had to close, leaving the whole village desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Between their lines and ours is a strip of desolate and waterless country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should like to deal with the rather gloomy vision of the desolate landscape. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He said that, because we are changing the rules of the game, we are creating a desolate landscape. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He knows what a desolate camp in the middle of a moor is like. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They served the purpose of money-getting, but are now left desolate and hopeless. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am certain if that were done those benches would be an empty and desolate waste. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are witnessing on our coasts the continuous use of nets which desolate and wipe out all life on the seabed. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We must respect reproduction periods and use nets that do not desolate the marine environment. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Problems exist on some bleak and desolate urban estates that are similar to those of a rural village. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What we are thinking of are the desolate homes to which life will never return again in this world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have made a very practical contribution to providing homes for desolate and distressed people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their homes are desolate, their people are starving, body and soul. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We know that our whole politics were directed, for a desolate 40 years, to the antagonisms between chapel and church. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I saw for myself the empty grain silos and fields, and the desolate workers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All the factors which have induced industry to concentrate in this large conurbation will remain, creating more and more depressed and desolate areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The area covered by this huge estate is deprived, desolate and decimated, with hardly one person in full-time productive employment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The further we have to go into the more desolate areas the greater will be the cost. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Whole tracts of some towns are left as desolate, boarded-up areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must stop the beautiful young people of childhood turning into the desolate, wasted people of early middle age that he described. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Villages and towns are derelict, dilapidated and desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No visitors were allowed to go into those areas without a special permit, and the areas in consequence became desolate and derelict. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The tribesmen have evacuated this area, which includes two of the most fertile valleys in this desolate country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She is left broken-hearted and desolate with her young children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We must have rural houses and an improvement of the roads in that desolate country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The conditions in the industry are appalling everywhere; homes are desolate, and children and women are suffering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Areas such as my constituency, which were living communities, will be converted into desolate dormitories without hope or a basic future. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not have very high mountains in this country, but we have desolate areas which can be extremely cold and dangerous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To me territory south of the river are desolate wastes from which no traveller returns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are desolate areas or unpopulated areas from which such aircraft could operate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are as desolate as one would expect, but even the most starved-looking children can usually recover with food and care. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The stations are desolate and empty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I saw an island totally desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What concerns me also is that the borough is becoming more and more a wasteland of desolate cleared sites awaiting transportation projects which never seem to materialise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was a source not only of tremendous help but of real inspiration to our boys working in this remote and desolate part of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am also thinking of the volunteers who came last weekend to plant 300 trees in an area which had been forlorn, desolate and drab for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was squalor—neighbourhoods were grim and desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is good reason to suppose that those in the community would be desolate to lose the name of the police force that has saved them from heaven knows what. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I come from a city where there is a very large number of these flats, and nothing more desolate can be imagined than the condition produced by them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The passage on home defence in this year's defence statement, at 130 words, is almost twice as long as last year's reference, but it is just as arid and desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The total area is desolate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They must have a very poor idea of our post-war efforts at reconstruction when they view the barren and desolate areas where once shops, buildings and offices stood. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many of them are in desolate places. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think the slum dwelling, with its desolate streets and surroundings, far more open to objection than the healthy open-air life that these children lead on the barges. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want new methods to be used in industry and in commerce and local government, so that the desolate state of the countryside and the cities can be remedied. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He wishes to reclaim the harp, now neglected and desolate, and to restore its power. At day's end, when large, decorated snowmen stood in the neighboring yards, our yard was desolate. Such thoughts seem desolate at first; at times all the bitterness of life seems concentrated in them. The village disappointed, since it looked 'entirely desolate' and no different from many of the others along the river. The hinterland of that opening is a spare, almost desolate landscape in which the material from which the work derives is exposed. Pelling was quite desolate, for the tourist season had not yet begun. You see these houses flattened and then for years brick rubble and the land left desolate and nothing done. The universe, however, turns out to be overwhelmingly desolate. Of all spots on the bleached and desolate upland this was the most forlorn. A large, under-utilised pub carpark creates a desolate void only used for the occasional village fete or barbecue. Of the uncovered half, half is desolate (south of the equator), while the other half is inhabited (north of the equator). The landscape is not quite so desolate, however. 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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