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

• She was desolated to discover that she had lost her wedding ring.
  她发现结婚戒指掉了，感到很难过。
• He desolated large parts of italy.
  他使意大利大部分地区人烟荒芜。
• Sure, more asshole or expectation means more erosion, but please do not feel desolated by it, feel challenged by it, lets make us better each other.
  当然，更多过客或希冀意味着更多的糜烂，但请别感到落寞，你应感到激励，让我们共同进步。
• 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。
• 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。
• I was sure that the tarred road would have found it out and I wondered in what other ways it would be desolated.
  我缅想那条容易辨认的柏油路，我又缅想那些已显荒凉的其他景色。
• No cataclysm has desolated the whole world.
  没有任何激变曾使整个世界变成荒芜。
• 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。
• 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。
• War has desolated that city.
  战争毁坏了那个城市。