desert

英[ˈdezət]
美[ˈdezərt]

基本释义

n.
沙漠,荒原; 枯燥乏味的地方(或境况)
v.
抛弃,遗弃,舍弃; 背弃,放弃; 突然丧失(特质、技巧等); 擅离(职守); (尤指从军队)开小差

词性变化

实用例句

The villages had been deserted.

这些村庄已经荒无人烟了。

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The owl seems to have deserted its nest.

这只猫头鹰似乎不要这个窝了。

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Large numbers of soldiers deserted as defeat became inevitable.

战败已成定局,许多士兵开小差跑了。

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Why did you desert teaching for politics?

你为什么弃教从政呢?

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Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.

她一时间似乎失去了勇气。

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[不可数名词, 可数名词]She felt betrayed by her husband's desertion.

她感到丈夫遗弃她辜负了她的心。

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The army was badly affected by desertions.

开小差使部队大受影响。

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She was deserted by her husband.

她被丈夫遗弃了。

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

文化沙漠

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burning desert sands

沙漠里灼热的沙

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Somalia is mostly desert.

索马里大部分地区都是荒漠。

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the Sahara Desert

撒哈拉大沙漠

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

在书的结尾,那个孩子的真实身份大白于世,坏人则得到了应有的惩罚。

He deserted from army intelligence last month...

上个月他从陆军情报机关开小差跑了。

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

他在擅离部队之前是一名陆军少尉。

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

她突然自信心全失,接下来连败 5 局,并最终丢了这一盘。

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

即使在他看上去很沮丧的时候,他也从没有丧失过自己的冷面幽默。

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

看到那么多的年轻人放弃了合作农场的生活,他感到很痛心。

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

报纸价格的上涨将导致更多的读者不再订阅。

He has been deserted by most of his advisers.

他的大多数顾问都弃他而去。

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

罗丁太太的丈夫数年前抛弃了她。

After the show, the audience deserts the Blackpool streets.

演出结束后,观众从布莱克浦的大街上消失了踪迹。

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

小农场主正舍弃他们的土地,到这里来寻找工作。

Pubs are a cultural desert.

酒馆是文化沙漠。

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

他们居住的地方是坐落于一片钢筋水泥丛林中的12栋高层公寓楼。

...the Sahara Desert.

撒哈拉大沙漠

...the burning desert sun...

沙漠中火辣辣的太阳

真题例句

They are deserted by their family.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

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月阅读原文

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月听力原文

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

2019年高考英语全国卷I 完形填空 原文

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

2016年高考英语浙江卷(6月) 完形填空 原文

Is this snack bar always this deserted?

2015年高考英语上海卷 听力 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年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

英英释义

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"

同义词辨析

abandon, desert, forsake, leave, give up

这些动词或词组均含"抛弃,放弃"之意

  • abandon:强调永远或完全放弃或抛弃人或事物等,这可能是被迫的,也可能是自愿的。
  • desert:着重指违背法律责任和义务,或自己的信仰与誓言的行为,多含非难的意味。
  • forsake:侧重断绝感情上的依恋,自愿抛弃所喜欢的人或物。也指抛弃信仰或改掉恶习。
  • leave:普通用词,指舍弃某事或某一职业,或终止同一某人的关系,但不涉及动机与果。
  • give up:普通用语,侧重指没有希望或因外界压力而放弃。

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