desolate
adj. 荒凉的; 孤独凄凉的
v. 使不悦; 使悲惨
A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
...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
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。
If someone is desolate, they feel very sad, alone, and without hope.
He was desolate without her.
没有她,他感到孤独而凄凉。
If something desolates you, it upsets you and makes you very unhappy.
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. leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch;
2. reduce in population;
3. devastate or ravage;
1. providing no shelter or sustenance;
2. pitiable in circumstances especially through abandonment;
3. crushed by grief;
4. made uninhabitable;
lonely, alone, desolate, lone, solitary
这些形容词均有"孤单的,寂寞的"之意。
This place is desolate of all vegetation.
这个地方不长草木.
He looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.
他带着辛辣、凄凉的微笑看着他们.
Streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate.
过去拥挤的街道现在荒芜了.
But we are headed to a place that is much more desolate.
但我们正朝向一个远比这更为荒寂的处所.
The house was desolate, ready to be torn down.
这房子没人居住, 等着拆除.