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

• 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。
• She had been desolated by the death of her friend.
  朋友的去世使她感到十分悲伤。
• David felt utterly desolated at losing his job.
  戴维丢了工作，感到伤心透了。
• He desolated large parts of italy.
  他使意大利大部分地区人烟荒芜。
• The invading army desolated the country.
  入侵军队使该国饱受蹂躏。
• 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。
• 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。
• No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
  没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
• 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。
• 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；