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

• Then her gates will mourn and lament, And she, being desolated, will sit on the ground.
  26锡安的城门必悲伤、哀号，她必荒凉坐在地上。
• 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；
• The invading army desolated the country.
  入侵军队使该国饱受蹂躏。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The floods desolated my village.
  这场洪水使我们村子变得很荒凉。