desolate

desolate怎么读

英式音标：[ˈdesələt]

美式音标：[ˈdɛsəlɪt]

desolate基本解释

adj. 荒凉的；无人烟的

vt. 使荒凉；使孤寂

desolate的意思释义

adj.

无人的；荒凉的；孤独的，凄凉的；荒废的

vt.

使荒无人烟，使荒芜；使凄凉，使孤单；

变形

过去式：desolated过去分词：desolated现在分词：desolating第三人称单数：desolates

双语释义

adj.(形容词)

无人的，荒凉的 empty of people,barren

阴郁的，孤独凄凉的 depressed,lonely and sad

v.(动词)

vt. 毁坏，极大地破坏 cause great destruction of,ravage

vt. 使沮丧，使痛苦 depress,deeply sadden

英英释义

desolate[ \'desələt, \'desəleit ]

v.

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

同义词：abandonforsakedesert

reduce in population

同义词：depopulate

devastate or ravage

同义词：lay waste towastedevastateravagescourge

adj.

providing no shelter or sustenance

\"the desolate surface of the moon\"

同义词：barebarrenbleakstark

crushed by grief

\"depressed and desolate of soul\"; \"a low desolate wail\"

desolate用法及例句

同近义词辨析

solitary, desolate, lone, alone, lonely

这组词都有“孤单的，寂寞的”的意思，其区别是：

solitary可指因被遗忘或遗弃而产生的孤独感，也可指人的生性孤僻。

desolate语气强烈，强调遭受损失和失去亲人所带来的难以忍受的痛苦。

lone较文雅，可与lonely换用。

alone普通用词，指独自一人的状态，有时含孤寂之意。

lonely强调孤独感，含“渴望和他人在一起”的意味。

solitary, desolate, lonely, alone, lonesome

solitary独居的，独自的

desolate指某地无人烟的，荒凉的

lonely 偏重一种主观感受上的“寂寞” lonely和solitary可用以形容很少有人到的偏僻地方。

alone和solitary都用以形容一人或一事物与他人或他事物相分离，二者形容的人可能是其本人愿意如此，这两个词并无不愉快的含义。

lonesome 孤独的 lonely和lonesome指并非本人愿意如此，含有不愉快之意。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

We saw few houses in the desolate valley.

在这荒凉的山谷里,我们很少见到房子。

The railway station became desolate in the war.

战争期间，这个火车站变得荒凉了。

Heavy rain will wash away the soil from desolate hills.

大雨将把泥土从荒凉的山丘上冲走。

This place is desolate of all vegetation.

这个地方不长草木。

They planted grass seed on the desolate hills.

他们在那些荒芜的山丘上撒播草籽。

I felt so desolate and so angry.

我感到异常孤愤。

He has been desolate since his wife died.

自从妻子去世后, 他一直很孤独。

例句参考

Desolate

Desolate Place for a Defiant People

Desolate landscapes : Ice-Age settlement in Eastern Europe

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Offline: A rainbow on my desolate land

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation, and America (Book)

Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation, and America (review)

Darwin\'s Desolate Islands: a Naturalist in the Falklands, 1833 and 1834

Tongue is the Face of the Malady? Differentiating in Desolate Distance: Locus -Tropical Field India

Long-Distance Migration of Drosophila. 2. Presence in Desolate Sites and Dispersal Near a Desert Oasis

desolate词源

desolate

desolate: see sole

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.

desolate相关例句

1.Over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm.

这儿整个偏僻的地方笼罩着一种可怕的寂静。

2.It was sparsely wooded and desolate.

这里树木稀少，荒无人烟。

3.She recognized the country more precisely, the desolate marsh and the sea.

她对乡村景色的辩认更细致入微了，她看见了那片荒凉的沼泽地和海。

4.The town has a desolate visage.

这个镇子呈现出一片荒凉。

5.She thought of her own desolate fate, far from her native land.

她想到自己孤寂的命运，远离自己的国土。

6.The foreigner felt desolate in the strange country.

外国人住在异国感到孤寂。

7.I learned more about him as we sailed across the desolate sea.

在渡过渺无人迹的大海时，我听到了更多的关于他的情况。

8.A cold rain was killing desolate New York with its green icy spikes.

一阵冷雨用它那绿色的冰寒的雨箭，使纽约变得更为荒凉孤寂。

9.He looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.

他带着辛辣、凄凉的微笑看着他们。

10.For some years he continued to write prose, including a painfully desolate historical novel.

他继续写了几年散文，包括一部异常枯燥的历史小说。