['desəlit]
desolate
a. 荒凉的

词形变化:

名词:desolateness 副词:desolately 动词过去式:desolated 过去分词:desolated 现在分词:desolating 第三人称单数:desolates

例句与用法:

  1. 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
  2. Land that is desolate, barren, or ravaged.
    荒原荒凉、贫瘠或遭到毁坏之土地
  3. 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。
  4. The rocky, desolate surface of the moon.
    月球多石的、荒凉的表面

英英解释:

动词 desolate:

  1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch
  2. 同义词:abandon, forsake, desert
  3. reduce in population
  4. 同义词:depopulate
  5. devastate or ravage
  6. 同义词:lay waste to, waste, devastate, ravage, scourge

形容词 desolate:

  1. providing no shelter or sustenance
  2. 同义词:bare, barren, bleak, stark
  3. crushed by grief