desolate

英语

词源

源自中古英语 desolate，源自拉丁语 dēsōlātus，dēsōlāre (“离开，使...孤独，蹂躏，使...人迹罕至”)的过去分词，源自sōlus (“独自的”)。

发音

(形容词) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈdɛsələt/
- （美国）音频： (档案)
(动词) 国际音标^(帮助): /ˈdɛsəleɪt/

形容词

desolate (比较级 more desolate，最高级 most desolate)

荒芜的，人迹罕至的
a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house
荒岛，荒野，荒废的屋子
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 9:11:
  I will make Jerusalem […] a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
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- 1830, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Dying Swan:
  And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.
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贫瘠的
破败的
desolate altars ― 破旧不堪的祭坛
阴沉的，枯燥的
绝望的，希望渺茫的
He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.
他妻子的早死让他失去了希望。
- Template:RQ:Keble Christian Year
  voice of the poor and desolate

动词

desolate (第三人称单数简单现在时 desolates，现在分词 desolating，一般过去时及过去分词 desolated)

使...荒芜，使...人迹罕至
- 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Vicissitude of Things” in Essays, London: H. Herringman et al., 1691, p. 204,^[1]
  If you consider well of the People of the West-Indies, it is very probable, that they are a newer or younger People, than the People of the old World. And it is much more likely, that the destruction that hath heretofore been there, was not by Earthquakes, […] but rather, it was Desolated by a particular Deluge: For Earthquakes are seldom in those Parts.
- 1717, John Dryden (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Dublin: G. Risk et al., 1727, Volume I, Book I, p. 16,^[2]
  O Righteous Themis, if the Pow’rs above
  
  By Pray’rs are bent to pity, and to love;
  
  If humane Miseries can move their Mind;
  
  If yet they can forgive, and yet be kind;
  
  Tell how we may restore, by second birth,
  
  Mankind, and people desolated Earth.
- 1891, Charles Creighton, A History of Epidemics in Britain, Cambridge University Press, Chapter 1, p. 23,^[3]
  York was so desolated just before the survey that it is not easy to estimate its ordinary population […]
摧毁，蹂躏，使...荒芜
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 2nd edition, 1809, Volume I, Book 3, p. 118,^[4]
  Then Moath pointed where a cloud
  
  Of Locusts，源自the desolated fields
  
  Of Syria, wing’d their way.
- 1905, H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia, Chapter 2, § 3,^[5]
  But in Utopia there will be wide stretches of cheerless or unhealthy or toilsome or dangerous land with never a household; there will be regions of mining and smelting, black with the smoke of furnaces and gashed and desolated by mines, with a sort of weird inhospitable grandeur of industrial desolation, and the men will come thither and work for a spell and return to civilisation again, washing and changing their attire in the swift gliding train.
荒废，废弃
- 1828, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable:
  It is not to be supposed that when Cush left Armenia, he left it desolate, and that a rich and long settled country was abandoned altogether; for it would be an absurd way of founding an universal empire, to desolate one country in order to people another.
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- 2007, James B. Jordan, The Handwriting on the Wall: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel, →ISBN:
  This completion of the Temple and attack upon Christians is the event that marks the apostasy that causes desolation, the detestable act that causes God to desolate (abandon) and destroy the Temple for the last time.
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- 2013, Tracey A. Revenson, “Debunking the Myth of Lonelines in Late Life”, 出自 Redefining Social Problems, →ISBN，第 126 页:
  Combining widowed, separated, and divorced elders into a single group ("desolated"), the data indicated that desolated elders were slightly more lonely than either married or never-married older people (although this trend was not statistically significant at the conventional .05 level).
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使...绝望
- 1914, Arnold Bennett, The Author’s Craft, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Part II, p. 44,^[6]
  It is not altogether uncommon to hear a reader whose heart has been desolated by the poignancy of a narrative complain that the writer is unemotional.
- 1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, Chapter 36, p. 271,^[7]
  Kumalo stood shocked at the frightening and desolating words.