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Desert Leave Means Dezərt N 沙漠 Sahara Great

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Pron ['dezərt]
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n. 沙漠
The Sahara is a great desert in the northern part of Africa.
撒哈拉沙漠是位于北非的大沙漠。
Vocab
desertleave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

A desert is a wasteland. If you fry your brain cells with drugs, then your mind will turn into a desert.

Desert comes from the Latin desertus, for abandoned or lying in waste. This can refer to a vast sandy area without vegetation, or any empty, lifeless expanse. As a verb, it means to leave someone or something. A soldier who runs away from the army is called a deserter. Occasionally you'll hear someone say, "He got his just deserts," which doesn't have anything to do with abandonment; it means he got what he deserved.

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