| 单词 | desolation |
| 释义 | des·o·la·tion 1. < Europe was living in a state of anarchy … until it erupted into the pitiful desolation and slaughter of World War I — D.F.Fleming > 2. a. < the Indians fled into the Great Smoky mountains, leaving ruin and desolation behind — American Guide Series: North Carolina > b. < an appearance of desolation … dead cypress masts rise above thick gray underbrush; in others the boggy surface is littered with charred logs and stumps — American Guide Series: North Carolina > < little to distract the eye from the awful surrounding dreariness and desolation except the bleaching skeletons of horses — American Guide Series: Arizona > 3. a. < bleak, gray, God-forsaken, the empty desolation stretched on every hand — O.E.Rölvaag > b. < nothing was visible but an opaque mist veiling an immense, sun-brown desolation — James Hilton > c. < the unconquerable desolation of the Yorkshire moors — Ellen Glasgow > 4. a. < he put his trembling hands to his head and gave a ringing scream, the cry of desolation — George Eliot > b. < thoughts that climb from desolation toward the genial prime — William Wordsworth > |
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