desert

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英[?dez?t]
美[?dez?rt]

基本釋義

n.
沙漠,荒原; 枯燥乏味的地方(或境況)
v.
拋棄,遺棄,舍棄; 背棄,放棄; 突然喪失(特質、技巧等); 擅離(職守); (尤指從軍隊)開小差

詞性變化

實用例句

The villages had been deserted.

這些村莊已經荒無人煙了。

牛津詞典

The owl seems to have deserted its nest.

這只貓頭鷹似乎不要這個窩了。

牛津詞典

Large numbers of soldiers deserted as defeat became inevitable.

戰(zhàn)敗已成定局,許多士兵開小差跑了。

牛津詞典

Why did you desert teaching for politics?

你為什么棄教從政呢?

牛津詞典

Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.

她一時間似乎失去了勇氣。

牛津詞典

[不可數名詞, 可數名詞]She felt betrayed by her husband's desertion.

她感到丈夫遺棄她辜負了她的心。

牛津詞典

The army was badly affected by desertions.

開小差使部隊大受影響。

牛津詞典

She was deserted by her husband.

她被丈夫遺棄了。

牛津詞典

(figurative)a cultural desert (= a place without any culture)

文化沙漠

牛津詞典

burning desert sands

沙漠里灼熱的沙

牛津詞典

Somalia is mostly desert.

索馬里大部分地區(qū)都是荒漠。

牛津詞典

the Sahara Desert

撒哈拉大沙漠

牛津詞典

At the end of the book the child's true identity is discovered, and the bad guys get their just deserts.

在書的結尾,那個孩子的真實身份大白于世,壞人則得到了應有的懲罰。

He deserted from army intelligence last month...

上個月他從陸軍情報機關開小差跑了。

He was a second-lieutenant in the army until he deserted...

他在擅離部隊之前是一名陸軍少尉。

She lost the next five games, and the set, as her confidence abruptly deserted her.

她突然自信心全失,接下來連敗 5 局,并最終丟了這一盤。

Even when he appeared to be depressed, a dry sense of humour never deserted him...

即使在他看上去很沮喪的時候,他也從沒有喪失過自己的冷面幽默。

He was pained to see many youngsters deserting kibbutz life...

看到那么多的年輕人放棄了合作農場的生活,他感到很痛心。

The paper's price rise will encourage readers to desert in even greater numbers...

報紙價格的上漲將導致更多的讀者不再訂閱。

He has been deserted by most of his advisers.

他的大多數顧問都棄他而去。

Mrs Roding's husband deserted her years ago...

羅丁太太的丈夫數年前拋棄了她。

After the show, the audience deserts the Blackpool streets.

演出結束后,觀眾從布萊克浦的大街上消失了蹤跡。

Farmers are deserting their fields and coming here looking for jobs...

小農場主正舍棄他們的土地,到這里來尋找工作。

Pubs are a cultural desert.

酒館是文化沙漠。

They live in 12 high-rise apartment buildings that sit in a desert of concrete...

他們居住的地方是坐落于一片鋼筋水泥叢林中的12棟高層公寓樓。

...the Sahara Desert.

撒哈拉大沙漠

...the burning desert sun...

沙漠中火辣辣的太陽

真題例句

They are deserted by their family.

出自-2015年12月閱讀原文

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

出自-2017年6月閱讀原文

Hospital workers in at least one case deserted their workplace in panic, thus halting the administering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections, but Ebola has not disappeared.

出自-2013年6月聽力原文

Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert: gravel (礫石), stones and rocks.

2019年高考英語全國卷I 完形填空 原文

During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California.

2016年高考英語浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文

Is this snack bar always this deserted?

2015年高考英語上海卷 聽力 原文

They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be very painful unless one chose to live alone in the desert.

2015年高考英語江蘇卷 閱讀理解 閱讀D 原文

英英釋義

Noun
  • 1. an arid region with little or no vegetation

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

    "The mother deserted her children"

  • 2. desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army;

    "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"

Adjective
  • 1. located in a dismal or remote area; desolate;

    "a desert island"

    "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"

    "a wild stretch of land"

    "waste places"

同義詞辨析

abandon, desert, forsake, leave, give up

這些動詞或詞組均含"拋棄,放棄"之意

  • abandon:強調永遠或完全放棄或拋棄人或事物等,這可能是被迫的,也可能是自愿的。
  • desert:著重指違背法律責任和義務,或自己的信仰與誓言的行為,多含非難的意味。
  • forsake:側重斷絕感情上的依戀,自愿拋棄所喜歡的人或物。也指拋棄信仰或改掉惡習。
  • leave:普通用詞,指舍棄某事或某一職業(yè),或終止同一某人的關系,但不涉及動機與果。
  • give up:普通用語,側重指沒有希望或因外界壓力而放棄。

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