Desert
['dezət;dɪ'zɜːt] or ['dɛzɚt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) arid land with little or no vegetation.
(verb.) leave behind; 'the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period'.
卡洛琳手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
(n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
(n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
(v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
(v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
(v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.
厄玛編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Uninhabited, desolate, forsaken, wild, waste, barren, untilled.
n. Wilderness, waste, solitude, deserted region.
v. a. Forsake, leave, quit, abandon, renounce, leave in the lurch, turn one's back upon.
n. Deserving, due, merit or demerit.
丹尼整理
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ABANDON]
SYN:Wild, waste, wilderness, solitude, void
ANT:Inclosure, field, pasture, garden, oasis
卡洛整理
解釋/意思:
adj. deserted: desolate: uninhabited: uncultivated: a desolate or barren place: a wilderness: a solitude.
n. the reward or punishment deserved: claim to reward: merit—adj. Desert′less without merit.
v.t. to leave: to forsake.—v.i. to run away: to quit a service as the army without permission.—ns. Desert′er one who deserts or quits a service without permission; Deser′tion act of deserting: state of being deserted: wilful abandonment of a legal or moral duty or obligation.
卡尔顿手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of wandering through a gloomy and barren desert, denotes famine and uprisal of races and great loss of life and property. For a young woman to find herself alone in a desert, her health and reputation is being jeopardized by her indiscretion. She should be more cautious.
手打:西格蒙德
例句/造句/用法:
- There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- After the destruction of Palmyra, the desert Arabs began to be spoken of in the Roman and Persian records as Saracens. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The centre of gravity of Islam shifted across the desert from Damascus to Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Or perhaps this IS the Desert of Sahara! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In my youth young men didn't desert pretty women unless they were made to! 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The only person I know who exactly answers your description, and for whom as a poor deserted orphan it would be a charity to provide, is in Paris. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But no, sir, no; I doen't mean as it should be deserted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I, who never have deserted you; who never WILL desert you, Micawber! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The house seems deserted. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- They went out by another staircase, avoiding the lodge; and coming into the front court-yard, now all quiet and deserted, gained the street. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The higher his deserts, the more improper for me ever to have thought of him. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Thus vanquished and restricted, she pined, like any other chained denizen of deserts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The lawless Bedouins in the Valley of the Jordan and the deserts down by the Dead Sea were up in arms, and were going to destroy all comers. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He only laughed, and told me the boy had got his deserts. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- You have only got your deserts. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- But he'll cry himself sick, pleaded Meg, reproaching herself for deserting her boy. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- At first, such a baby could do little more than sit with him, deserting her livelier place by the high fender, and quietly watching him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He knows not how to answer them, although he is afraid of deserting justice in the hour of need. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Return to the drawing-room: you are deserting too early. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss Sutherland? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- It's not deserting from the army. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Or is it entire in any one part without deserting the rest? 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
汉丽埃塔整理