desolated

英 [ˈdesəleɪtɪd]

美 [ˈdesəleɪtɪd]

v.  使感到悲惨; 使感到凄凉; 使悲伤绝望
desolate的过去分词和过去式

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柯林斯词典

The adjective is pronounced /'desələt/. The verb is pronounced /'desəleɪt/. 形容词读作/'desələt/，动词读作 /'desəleɪt/。


• ADJ-GRADED 荒凉的;荒芜的;荒废的;无人烟的
  Adesolateplace is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
  1. ...a desolate landscape of flat green fields broken by marsh...
     平坦绿野被沼泽割裂开的荒凉景色
  2. Half-ruined, hardly a building untouched, it's a desolate place.
     这里大半遭毁，几乎没有一栋建筑完好无损，变成了一块荒废之地。
• ADJ-GRADED 凄凉的;孤寂的;孤独忧伤的
  If someone isdesolate, they feel very sad, alone, and without hope.
  1. He was desolate without her.
     没有她，他感到孤独而凄凉。
• VERB 使不悦;使痛苦;使悲惨
  If somethingdesolatesyou, it upsets you and makes you very unhappy.
  1. Their inclination to wait and demand more resources desolated President Lincoln.
     他们总是等待并要求得到更多资财的倾向让林肯总统甚感不快。

双语例句

• They had desolated it; they had trampled his lovely rose garden.
  他们使它变得荒芜；他们践踏了他那可爱的玫瑰花园。
• She was desolated to discover that she had lost her wedding ring.
  她发现结婚戒指掉了，感到很难过。
• The troops desolated the surrounding countryside during their raids.
  袭击中，军队把周围乡村搞得一片凄凉。
• He took a last look back into the desolated room.
  他回头向那凄寂的房间看了最后一眼。
• I was sure that the tarred road would have found it out and I wondered in what other ways it would be desolated.
  我缅想那条容易辨认的柏油路，我又缅想那些已显荒凉的其他景色。
• The invading army desolated the country.
  入侵军队使该国饱受蹂躏。
• Without knowing that the noisy can only make you lonelier and deeper desolated soon after.
  却不知道嘈杂的处所指挥让你们更孤独，喧嚣之后是更深的落寞。
• The concept of literary autonomy in New Criticism is a restatement and rewrite of independent value of literature, which is desolated and even obliterated in the history of literary theory.
  新批评的自律性文学观是对文论史上被冷落甚至被抹杀了的文学独立价值的再次申说和改写。
• However, as a result of former Soviet Union's influence, the Silver Age literature is once desolated or neglected by our country's commentary stratum;
  然而，由于受前苏联的影响，白银时代的文学曾一度被我国评论界冷落或忽视；
• Hanging out with little friends to some desolated places.
  和一两个朋友去人烟稀少的地方。