desolate句子

1. 凄凉的，孤独的，孤寂的，孤苦伶仃的
2. 荒凉的，荒无人烟的，荒废的，荒芜的
3. 惨淡的，不幸的
4. （地方）无人居住的

1. 使荒芜，使荒凉，使荒废，使杳无人迹，使荒无人烟
2. 使孤寂，使孤单，使凄凉，使悲惨，使悲伤绝望，使痛苦，使沮丧
3. 毁坏，损毁，破坏
4. 使不适于居住
5. 遗弃，抛弃，丢弃

1. providing no shelter or sustenance;

   "bare rocky hills"
   "barren lands"
   "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
   "the desolate surface of the moon"
   "a stark landscape"
   

2. crushed by grief;

   "depressed and desolate of soul"
   "a low desolate wail"
   

1. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;

   "The mother deserted her children"
   

2. reduce in population;

   "The epidemic depopulated the countryside"
   

3. cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly;

   "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
   

1.荒凉的;荒芜的;荒废的;无人烟的
Adesolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.

e.g. ...adesolate landscape of flat green fields broken by marsh...
平坦绿野被沼泽割裂开的荒凉景色
e.g. Half-ruined, hardly a building untouched, it's adesolate 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。

2.凄凉的;孤寂的;孤独忧伤的
If someone isdesolate, they feel very sad, alone, and without hope.

e.g. He wasdesolate without her.
没有她，他感到孤独而凄凉。

3.使不悦;使痛苦;使悲惨
If somethingdesolates you, it upsets you and makes you very unhappy.

e.g. 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。

1. Surf booms upon a desolate shore.
   波浪轰隆隆地拍打着荒凉的海岸。

1. He has been desolate since his wife died.
   自从妻子去世后，他一直很孤独。

1. War has desolated that city.
   战争毁坏了那个城市。
2. Her death desolated him.
   她的死使他很痛苦。

• To stand, like a desolate sea-bird, alone.

  出自：V. Woolf

• Never in his life before had he felt so desolatesabandoned by everyone who had ever loved him.

  出自：P. P. Read

• Would quite desolate the island, and starve them.

  出自：Defoe

• As if the city had been desolated by the plague.

  出自：C. Lyell

lonely，alone，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。