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

• Her death desolated him.
  她的死使他很痛苦。
• Do you know how much arable land has been desolated?
  你知道什么每年有多少土地荒漠化吗？
• War has desolated that city.
  战争毁坏了那个城市。
• Xiao Hong's Hulanhe Zhuan ( Portraits of Hulanle) is criticism on Hulanhe City: its horrible daily lives, backward customs; uncivilized traditional powers, desolated consciousness of life;
  萧红的《呼兰河传》批判了呼兰河城一些骇人听闻的日常生活、落后的民俗传承、愚昧的习惯势力、泯灭的生命意识；
• 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；
• 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。
• You sink yourselves in the noisy crowd day after day, year after year* without knowing that noise can only make you more and more lonely and deeper desolated soon after.
  却不知道噪杂的地方只会让你们更加孤独，喧嚣之后是更深的落寞。
• 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。
• People's governments at or above the county level shall take measures to strengthen the development and rehabilitation of barren hills, unreclaimed lands and desolated beaches.
  县级以上各级人民政府应当采取措施，加强对荒山、荒地、荒滩的开发与治理。
• In history, because of far away from the political, economical and cultural center of the country, governors of past dynasties always regarded Qinghai as barbaric and desolated area, and this situation changed from Yuan and Ming dynasties.
  然而历史上的青海地区，由于远离全国政治、经济和文化中心，历代统治者往往视之为蛮荒偏僻之地，这种局面在元明两代得以改观。