desolating
v. 毀壞( desolate的現在分詞 ); 極大地破壞; 使沮喪; 使痛苦
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。
They have maintained their optimism in the face of desolating subjugation.
面對遭征服的悲慘命運,他們保持了樂觀的態度。
Most desolating were those evenings the belle - mere had envisaged for them.
最最淒涼的要數 婆婆 給她們設計的夜晚.