| 单词 | desert |
| 释义 | desert 1. v. 1. tr. abandon, give up, leave (deserted the sinking ship). 2. tr. forsake or abandon (a cause or a person, people, etc., having claims on one) (deserted his wife and children). 3. tr. fail (his presence of mind deserted him). 4. intr. Mil. run away (esp. from military service). 5. tr. (as deserted adj.) empty, abandoned (a deserted house). Derivatives deserter n. (in sense 4 of v.). desertion n. Etymology: F d{eacute}serter f. LL desertare f. L desertus (as DESERT(2)) 2. n. & adj. --n a dry barren often sand-covered area of land, characteristically desolate, waterless, and without vegetation; an uninteresting or barren subject, period, etc. (a cultural desert). --adj 1. uninhabited, desolate. 2. uncultivated, barren. Phrases and idioms desert boot a suede etc. boot reaching to or extending just above the ankle. desert island a remote (usu. tropical) island presumed to be uninhabited. desert rat Brit. colloq. a soldier of the 7th British armoured division (with the jerboa as a badge) in the N. African desert campaign of 1941-2. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L desertus, eccl.L desertum (n.), past part. of deserere leave, forsake 3. n. 1. (in pl.) a acts or qualities deserving reward or punishment. b such reward or punishment (has got his deserts). 2. the fact of being worthy of reward or punishment; deservingness. Etymology: ME f. OF f. deservir DESERVE |
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