一、详细释义:


adj.

无人居住的;荒无人烟的;荒凉的


例句:

The town has a desolate visage.

这个镇子呈现出一片荒凉。


例句:

It was sparsely wooded and desolate.

这里树木稀少,荒无人烟。


孤独凄凉的


例句:

I felt so desolate and so angry.

我感到异常孤愤。


例句:

He has been desolate since his wife died.

自从妻子去世后, 他一直很孤独。


v.

使荒芜;使孤寂;使失望 [T]


例句:

His low grade had desolated his parents many times.

他不佳的成绩已不止一次让父母失望。


例句:

The land was desolated by floods.

洪水使田野荒芜。


二、词义辨析:


lonely,laone,desolate,lone,solitary

这些形容词均有“孤单的,寂寞的”之意。 lonely强调孤独感,含“渴望和他人在一起”的意味。 alone普通用词,指独自一人的状态,有时含孤寂之意。 desolate语气强烈,强调遭受损失和失去亲人所带来的难以忍受的痛苦。 lone较文雅,可与lonely换用。 solitary可指因被遗忘或遗弃而产生的孤独感,也可指人的生性孤僻。


三、参考例句:


The town has a desolate visage.

这个镇子呈现出一片荒凉。


I felt so desolate and so angry.

我感到异常孤愤。


He has been desolate since his wife died.

自从妻子去世后, 他一直很孤独。


We saw few houses in the desolate valley.

在这荒凉的山谷里,我们很少见到房子。


After the war the village was a desolate place.

那个村庄在战后成为荒凉之地。


The vast drums from slow beats indicating the sense of grand immenseness and desolate loneliness.

壮丽的鼓声,缓缓的击打着,描述出雄伟辽阔且孤寂的感觉。


The center of the Negev is an especially desolate and achromatic place.

内盖夫地区的中部是特别荒凉和消色差的地方。


Over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm.

这整个偏僻的地方笼罩着一种可怕的寂静。


Let's seek out some desolate shade, and there weep our sad bosoms empty.

我们寻个僻静的地方,去痛哭一场吧。


(Applause.) And this square itself, once a desolate no man's land, is now open to all.

(掌声)而这个广场本身,一度沦为无人之地,如今面向所人敞开。