Dust storms are not a new phenomenon - this image , from 1955 , shows a huge dust storm raging over a desolate texas farm .
沙尘暴不是一个新现象这张摄于1955年的照片,显示一场巨大的沙尘暴正肆虐着一个荒芜的德克萨斯农场。
About 1300 residents of qingshan township have been moved to xiangbei farm , desolate land where a prison once stood .
青山乡的大约1300个居民已经迁移到襄北农场,那里曾经是座监狱,土地荒芜。
Today , it 's a desolate , crumbling rock in the middle of the east china sea , battered by hurricanes so severe it 's impossible to land on the island most days of the year .
Her lot is to be wooed and won ; and if unhappy in her love , her heart is like some fortress that has been captured , and sacked , and abandoned , and left desolate .
leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch同义词:abandon, forsake, desert
reduce in population同义词:depopulate
devastate or ravage同义词:lay waste to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge
形容词 desolate:
providing no shelter or sustenance同义词:bare, barren, bleak, stark
crushed by grief
例句
A novel in a style emphasizing the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.哥特式小说着重描写怪诞、恐怖和孤寂的小说
Land that is desolate, barren, or ravaged.荒原荒凉、贫瘠或遭到毁坏之土地
Bands of outlaws lived in the desolate mountains after breaking the laws.成群的歹徒犯法后栖身于荒山中。
The rocky, desolate surface of the moon.月球多石的、荒凉的表面
详细解释
des.o.late adj.(形容词) Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:凄凉的:无人居住的;废弃的:例句:.streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate.(Daniel Defoe).过去拥挤的街道现在荒芜了.(丹尼尔·迪福) Barren; lifeless:荒凉的;无生命的:例句:the rocky, desolate surface of the moon.月球多石的、荒凉的表面 Rendered unfit for habitation or use:使不适于居住或使用的:例句:the desolate cities of war-torn Europe.欧洲经过战争蹂躏的无法居住的城市 Dreary; dismal.无生气的;忧郁的Bereft of friends or hope; sad and forlorn.See Synonyms at sad 失去朋友或希望的;伤心而孤独的参见 sadv.tr.(及物动词)des.o.lat.ed,des.o.lat.ing,des.o.lates[-l3t.] To rid or deprive of inhabitants.使无居民:除去居民To lay waste; devastate:使荒芜;使荒废:例句:.Here we have no wars to desolate our fields.(Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur).这里,没有战争来摧毁我们的土地.(米歇尔·纪尧姆·让·德·克雷夫科尔) To forsake; abandon.使荒弃;放弃To make lonely, forlorn, or wretched.使孤独,使凄凉,使忧郁 来源:Middle English 中古英语 from Latin dôsôl3tus [past participle of] dôsôl3re [to abandon] 源自 拉丁语 dôsôl3tus [] dôsôl3re的过去分词 [放弃] dô- [de-] dô- [前缀,表.使…离开.] sôlus [alone] * see s(w)e- sôlus [孤独,独自] *参见 s(w)e- 【引伸】 des.olately adv.(副词)des.olateness n.(名词)des.olat.er 或 des.ola.tor n.(名词)