desolate
adj. 荒涼的; 孤獨淒涼的
v. 使不悅; 使悲慘
A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
...a desolate landscape of flat green fields broken by marsh...
平坦綠野被沼澤割裂開的荒涼景色
Half-ruined, hardly a building untouched, it's a desolate place.
這裡大半遭毀,幾乎沒有一棟建築完好無損,變成了一塊荒廢之地。
If someone is desolate, they feel very sad, alone, and without hope.
He was desolate without her.
沒有她,他感到孤獨而淒涼。
If something desolates you, it upsets you and makes you very unhappy.
Their inclination to wait and demand more resources desolated President Lincoln.
他們總是等待並要求得到更多資財的傾向讓林肯總統甚感不快。
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
這些形容詞均有"孤單的,寂寞的"之意。
This place is desolate of all vegetation.
這個地方不長草木.
He looked at them with a smile both acrid and desolate.
他帶著辛辣、淒涼的微笑看著他們.
Streets which were usually so thronged now grown desolate.
過去擁擠的街道現在荒蕪了.
But we are headed to a place that is much more desolate.
但我們正朝向一個遠比這更為荒寂的處所.
The house was desolate, ready to be torn down.
這房子沒人居住, 等著拆除.