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desolation n.荒芜；荒凉；孤寂；凄凉 (1) 旱灾使这一地区荒芜了。(2) 看到战争造成的荒凉，他感到触目惊心。(3) 孩子们走了,她更觉孤寂。 Desolation is depressing and bleak. People arriving at the scenes of natural disasters, like tornadoes, often speak about the desolation around them. They usually are talking about the destruction, but they also implying a sense of emptiness and hopelessness. Other times desolation describes bleak, ugly landscapes: cold, snowy, lonely towns in New Hampshire or hot, dusty, empty towns in Nevada. You know desolation when you see it, because you feel hollow and lonely inside.

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英 [ˌdesə'leɪʃn] 美 [ˌdesə'leɪʃn] (1) A drought has brought desolation to the region.(2) He felt startled when he saw the desolation caused by war.(3) Her desolation is greater now that the children are away. Desolation is emptiness and hopelessness. It can describe a poor, dirty, treeless town or a broken heart. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]凄凉；孤寂；悲怆；绝望 Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness. Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.科泽莱克不带一丝顾影自怜地表达了自己的凄凉悲怆之感。2[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]荒凉；荒芜；荒废；满目疮痍 If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army.   [disapproval]We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin...我们放眼望去，眼前是一片荒凉的废墟。She says the army left desolation and death through the whole of northern Morazan.她说军队在整个莫拉桑省北部留下了满目疮痍和遍野横尸。

英语单词	desolation
英美音标	英 [ˌdesə'leɪʃn] 美 [ˌdesə'leɪʃn]
中文释义	n.荒芜；荒凉；孤寂；凄凉
英语例句	(1) A drought has brought desolation to the region. (2) He felt startled when he saw the desolation caused by war. (3) Her desolation is greater now that the children are away.
中文例句	(1) 旱灾使这一地区荒芜了。 (2) 看到战争造成的荒凉，他感到触目惊心。 (3) 孩子们走了,她更觉孤寂。
vocabulary简明	Desolation is emptiness and hopelessness. It can describe a poor, dirty, treeless town or a broken heart.
vocabulary扩展	Desolation is depressing and bleak. People arriving at the scenes of natural disasters, like tornadoes, often speak about the desolation around them. They usually are talking about the destruction, but they also implying a sense of emptiness and hopelessness. Other times desolation describes bleak, ugly landscapes: cold, snowy, lonely towns in New Hampshire or hot, dusty, empty towns in Nevada. You know desolation when you see it, because you feel hollow and lonely inside.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]凄凉；孤寂；悲怆；绝望 Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness. Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity. 科泽莱克不带一丝顾影自怜地表达了自己的凄凉悲怆之感。 2 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]荒凉；荒芜；荒废；满目疮痍 If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army. [disapproval] We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin... 我们放眼望去，眼前是一片荒凉的废墟。 She says the army left desolation and death through the whole of northern Morazan. 她说军队在整个莫拉桑省北部留下了满目疮痍和遍野横尸。

Desolation Hopelessness Emptiness Sense Lonely Towns Empty N Uncount