| 词汇 | example_english_desolation |
| 释义 | Examples of desolationThese 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. The end of it will be with a flood, and till the end of the war, desolations are determined. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The soul in the illuminative way will have to experience periods of spiritual consolations and desolations. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The soul, however, is not always in this state free from desolations and passive purgation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The ending is not consolation, but desolation - or, if even that risks sounding too sentimental - desultory, with a few clattery, breathy sounds that might as well be silence. When history speaks in simple terms, art and culture fall into desolation. New playing fields, grassy parks, fertile allotments, inland boating centres, could all be created from the present decay and desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We went to one street which, in particular, was a street of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We heard stories of such sadness and desolation that it was difficult not to be moved to tears. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Imagine the anguish, imagine the heartache, imagine the desolation of simply not knowing what happened or where those bodies are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The desolation that was caused in that town by the dismantlement of that industry cannot be described. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The desolation of my area and the environmental disadvantages that accompany that would also continue for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have only to look at the obsolete slate quarries, the slate waste and the derelict buildings, to appreciate the man-made desolation of the area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no need for the desolation, deprivation and scale of unemployment that we presently confront. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no beauty in desolation, there is no beauty in a solitary wilderness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The industrial map has been rent asunder, leaving behind acres of desolation and scores of factories which are virtually gathering moss. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have suffered ruin and desolation in almost all our coalfields where the combines have found a resting place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Miners once before have seen the desolation of massive unemployment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regard that as an abomination of desolation because one does not know whether it means "and"or"or". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At present there is nothing but desolation and the morale of the people who see their industry going is being destroyed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Long after the mine has ceased work and the machinery has been removed these gaunt hillocks of broken rock remain—monuments of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I well remember the desolation of farming in the pre-war years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The night will become a permanent nightmare, and the area will become an area of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To be awakened in the morning with a bed pan is an abomination of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What a spectacle that town presents to-day—what a picture of misery, of despondency, of desolation and despair. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I live among people who for eight years have seen nothing but the most desperate desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What must be understood about the cities is the terrible desolation and breaking of people's hopes and aspirations over recent years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Desolation, helplessness and anger: that is how you feel when you cross these areas that have been burnt to a cinder. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I myself feel that capital punishment is an abomination and desolation, and until we abolish it we are a barbaric country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At present, there is a mechanism for lending money to people on the boundaries—on desolation row—and we all know what it is. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately, we are getting all too familiar with such sights of utter desolation about the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The peace they would achieve by their policy of world revolution and armed force is a peace of utter desolation and universal ruin. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any country that could permit the desolation and the outrage envisaged would be looked at by others, and rightly so, as a nation of vandals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The feeling of desolation must permeate everything in their life as the future must appear nonexistent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The unemployment and the deplorable desolation of the villages was quite appalling to travel through; and there was so much hardship. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He argued that according to the way in which the wind was blowing, over a radius of 100 miles there would be desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have seen the impersonality, desolation and sheer bad quality that money without thoughtfulness can buy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They point to, not away from, decay and desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing good comes out of war—nothing, except devastation, suffering, desolation and losses throughout the centuries and through the generations. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In those days, war did not adopt that look of utter desolation which it adopts today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The bare facts of the human desolation in the economically lifeless areas are known. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He travels down the valley of desolation day by day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If an amalgamation will bring almost desolation to a vast number of people, steps ought to be taken to prevent that happening. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of making new roads they are relaying an old road, the road that led to 1914, the road that led to death and desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are symptoms, and unless something is done now they will mean desolation tomorrow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The burden of local rates is an absolute abomination of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have spent a lifetime preparing and planning our economy so that it would never return to the desolation of the inter-war years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is not the time to describe the feeling of desolation that is experienced at a time like this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sudden bitter contrast between gaiety and desolation must make it particularly hard to bear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Has anyone ever thought of the terrible misery, wretchedness, and desolation which will ensue in this country if we go to war? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Mistakes have been made—it would be folly to suggest otherwise—but those mistakes are nothing compared to the misery and desolation caused by private enterprise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 From every point of view, let us abolish this abomination of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They give some preference, not to the building of workingclass houses in all that desolation, but to the rebuilding of places like churches. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The social desolation at that level of unemployment would be so great that it would be pointless meticulously to measure the precise percentage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is urban desolation in inner cities because they have no soul. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Have they any idea of the misery and desolation being caused among this vulnerable group? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were 8½ square miles of desolation and 52 miles of river. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We all know what housing market failure means—empty houses and communities where antisocial behaviour problems follow the physical desolation to which abandoned housing leads. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One can go into certain of the colliery villages and find that they are places of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a time when in the mining valleys desolation lurked, but now it is open, naked and almost unashamed, for everyone to see. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To me it is reminiscent of the 1930s, when the silent winding gear was the symbol of despair and desolation in many a mining village. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were no floorboards—nothing—just twisted pipes and desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no other alternative to desolation, destruction and death. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In such communities there is an acute sense of abandonment, desolation and hopelessness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is civil war raging, leaving ruin and desolation in its trail. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No one should underestimate the value of help, comfort, advice and administrative assistance at a moment of great personal desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are heaps of desolation, and they ought never to have been there, but, of course, there they are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is always the environmental desolation in the intervening years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was desolation as far as the eye could see. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Houses were left derelict, churches were no longer attended, money ceased to ring on the counters of the shops and desolation prevailed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I felt utter desolation at the thought that a family was going through that experience, with every day grinding on in the same way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know of the poverty and desolation of the 1931 period and before and what that led to. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 With the decline of industry and commerce have come the decay and desolation of the local physical environment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Too often, the result has been vast, impersonal estates — the concrete desolation in which few people would today choose to live. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The point is made not by the numbers or the consequences alone, but by the sheer desolation and lack of hope felt by many of those concerned. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Her leaders in the course of the war promised that if they went down, they would leave behind a trail of desolation, and they have been pretty successful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The proposal as it stands is far too short a time for any real support for a widow or widower in a state of bewilderment and desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot ignore it, because if we do we will condemn the richest part of our national heritage—the countryside—to gradual desolation and create a wasteland in our towns and cities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The misery, desolation and grief that underlie the figures for many families is made more unbearably acute by the fact that many of the accidents were avoidable. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When we arrived there it turned out to be a mirage, for it was rapidly falling into decay and was in a very advanced state of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that not only trade unions but the women's lobby will not tolerate it once they appreciate the law's dusty response to the desolation of widowhood. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Yes, it is indeed the anti-immigration mechanisms that encourage migrants to take increasingly risky routes to flee the desolation of their countries that are the cause. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The country is a great distance away from transport, the climate is appalling and no man will go there willingly to face the desolation and the heat. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He described his feeling of utter desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am certain that the costs of doing nothing will be vast and will be reckoned in terms of misery and desolation as well as in cash. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At least this temporary expedient does show that means can be adopted and that it is not necessary to put up with the desolation of unemployment indefinitely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we do not pay a reasonable amount, the land will be formed into larger units and a good deal of it will go back to some form of desolation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Within their imposing walls, which had been hastily and clumsily repaired, there was desolation. During the time of desolation a year before, he suffered from fantasies. On the other hand, desolation in these areas is total. Her shock at losing this private paradise does therefore correspond in some way to the desolation caused by the defeat of the revolution. The thirty years of liberation war left the country in desolation, in terms alike of physical, administrative and political infrastructure. He is very good at capturing the air of desolation and doom that still hangs around such sites. The monotonous desolation of block after block of dark ferro-concrete tenements shocked even government officials. Desolation goes before us, and civilization lags slowly and lamely behind. What has engendered such people's sense of 'solitude and desolation' was the loss of intellectual groundings as a result of their travels and education. Where once there were thriving towns, for example, people had died or had fled, leaving trails of desolation. The 'suffering - flourishing' schema of periods one and two does not correspond with the 'declining - desolation - reformation' schema of periods three to five. An ensemble of buildings and spaces together make up an urban landscape; hills and their surrounding features convey power, desolation and emotion. Images such as; 'the dead tree gives no shelter,' help convey the desolation and melancholic nature of this world. 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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