See desolate on Wiktionary
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"text": "a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house",
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"源自中古英語的英語繼承詞",
"英語3音節詞",
"英語形容詞",
"英語詞元",
"語言標題順序錯誤的頁面"
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"desolate",
"desolate#中古英語"
],
[
"dēsōlātus",
"desolatus#拉丁語"
],
[
"dēsōlāre",
"desolare#拉丁語"
],
[
"sōlus",
"solus#拉丁語"
]
],
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"源自中古英語 desolate，源自拉丁語 dēsōlātus，dēsōlāre (“离开，使...孤独，蹂躏，使...人迹罕至”)的过去分词，源自sōlus (“独自的”)。"
],
"forms": [
{
"form": "more desolate",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"form": "most desolate",
"tags": [
"superlative"
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}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"pos_title": "形容词",
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"有使用例的英語詞",
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"英語引文翻譯請求"
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"text": "a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house",
"translation": "荒岛，荒野，荒废的屋子"
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88
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"ref": "1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Jeremiah 9:11」：",
"text": "I will make Jerusalem […] a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant."
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"ref": "1830, Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Dying Swan:",
"text": "And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among."
}
],
"glosses": [
"荒芜的，人迹罕至的"
]
},
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"glosses": [
"贫瘠的"
]
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"text": "desolate altars",
"translation": "破旧不堪的祭坛"
}
],
"glosses": [
"破败的"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"阴沉的，枯燥的"
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"text": "He was left desolate by the early death of his wife.",
"translation": "他妻子的早死让他失去了希望。"
},
{
"text": "voice of the poor and desolate"
}
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"glosses": [
"绝望的，希望渺茫的"
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"desolate",
"desolate#中古英語"
],
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"dēsōlātus",
"desolatus#拉丁語"
],
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"dēsōlāre",
"desolare#拉丁語"
],
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"sōlus",
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"源自中古英語 desolate，源自拉丁語 dēsōlātus，dēsōlāre (“离开，使...孤独，蹂躏，使...人迹罕至”)的过去分词，源自sōlus (“独自的”)。"
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},
{
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"present",
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]
},
{
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"raw_tags": [
"簡單過去時"
],
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"ref": "1717, John Dryden (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Dublin: G. Risk et al., 1727, Volume I, Book I, p. 16,",
"text": "Mankind, and people desolated Earth."
}
],
"glosses": [
"使...荒芜，使...人迹罕至"
]
},
{
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, 2nd edition, 1809, Volume I, Book 3, p. 118,",
"text": "Of Syria, wing’d their way."
},
{
"ref": "1905, H. G. Wells, A Modern Utopia, Chapter 2, § 3,",
"text": "But in Utopia there will be wide stretches of cheerless or unhealthy or toilsome or dangerous land with never a household; there will be regions of mining and smelting, black with the smoke of furnaces and gashed and desolated by mines, with a sort of weird inhospitable grandeur of industrial desolation, and the men will come thither and work for a spell and return to civilisation again, washing and changing their attire in the swift gliding train."
}
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"摧毁，蹂躏，使...荒芜"
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"ref": "1828, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod: A Discourse on Certain Passages of History and Fable:",
"text": "It is not to be supposed that when Cush left Armenia, he left it desolate, and that a rich and long settled country was abandoned altogether; for it would be an absurd way of founding an universal empire, to desolate one country in order to people another."
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"ref": "2007, James B. Jordan, The Handwriting on the Wall: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel, →ISBN:",
"text": "This completion of the Temple and attack upon Christians is the event that marks the apostasy that causes desolation, the detestable act that causes God to desolate (abandon) and destroy the Temple for the last time."
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"ref": "2013, Tracey A. Revenson, “Debunking the Myth of Lonelines in Late Life”, in Redefining Social Problems, →ISBN, page 126:",
"text": "Combining widowed, separated, and divorced elders into a single group (\"desolated\"), the data indicated that desolated elders were slightly more lonely than either married or never-married older people (although this trend was not statistically significant at the conventional .05 level)."
}
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"荒废，废弃"
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"ref": "1914, Arnold Bennett, The Author’s Craft, London: Hodder & Stoughton, Part II, p. 44,",
"text": "It is not altogether uncommon to hear a reader whose heart has been desolated by the poignancy of a narrative complain that the writer is unemotional."
},
{
"ref": "1948, Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, New York: Scribner, Chapter 36, p. 271,",
"text": "Kumalo stood shocked at the frightening and desolating words."
}
],
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"使...绝望"
]
}
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