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

• David felt utterly desolated at losing his job.
  戴维丢了工作，感到伤心透了。
• 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。
• 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。
• The invading army desolated the country.
  入侵军队使该国饱受蹂躏。
• 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；
• They are in the creation style close to her and tend to be desolated, and due to her charm and influence she even is regarded as the descendant of Zhang School.
  他们在创作中与她气息相近，风格趋向苍凉，甚至被称为张派传人，可见张爱玲的魅力和影响力。
• She had been desolated by the death of her friend.
  朋友的去世使她感到十分悲伤。
• 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。
• No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
  没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
• As a squadron leader you were sent in countless wars to leave a desolated battlefield for the following infantry.
  如一位你被送出数不尽的战争为下列的步兵离开一个被荒凉的战场骑兵营领袖。