desolate
/ˈdɛs.ə.lət/ 形容词 C1中文： 荒凉
- Deserted and devoid of inhabitants. · a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
- Barren and lifeless.
- Made unfit for habitation or use because of neglect, destruction etc. · desolate altars
- Dismal or dreary.
- Sad, forlorn and hopeless. · He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
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Between and around these scattered points extends the desolate, lifeless moor.
Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
I saw your vessel, and fearful of being left to perish on the desolate island, I swam off on a piece of wreckage to try and intercept your course.
“Now I understand,” he said, “why you had me brought here to this desolate spot, in the midst of the ocean, to this subterranean palace; it was because you loved me, was it not, count?
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