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verb dɪˈzəːtdəˈzərt [with object]1Abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous. 遗弃，背弃（人，事业，组织） we feel our public representatives have deserted us Example sentencesExamples - White working class voters are deserting social democratic parties around the western world.
- Nonconformists were outraged and many of those who had deserted the party in 1886 came back.
- How was his third wife to know that he had deserted his still-living first wife?
- I have not deserted the military nor been disloyal to the men and women of the military.
- What is worse about Henry's story is that he raised his three sons virtually single-handed after his wife deserted them.
- The enormous crowds delighted show organisers who had feared they may have deserted the event after last year's cancellation.
- When the Government deserts them, who else is there to listen to the plight of the lottery people?
- Those were dark times as friends deserted him and fans shunned him.
- Moreover, we cannot help but feel sorry for the emotionally lonely jeweler who lacks a wife and is deserted even by his housemaid.
- Millions of voters and members have deserted these parties and are seeking an alternative.
- It fears that its voters, particularly the younger generation, will desert the party if it is seen to capitulate to a unionist agenda.
- Near the end of the story, deserted by his wife, he returns to descend into alcoholism.
- But now is not the time to desert the Labour Party, now is the time to reclaim it.
- His customers deserted his food kiosk and his wife left him.
- The menace of grooms deserting their legally wedded wives is rampant.
- In Germany, opinion polls have indicated that traditional voters are profoundly disillusioned with the Party and are deserting it in droves.
- Was such a party bound to desert its essential core of supporters, they working class, in its attempt to secure the votes and support of others?
- By 1914 most of their best-known intellectuals had quarrelled with Lenin's tactics and deserted the party.
- And they are very disaffected with a Labour Party they believe has deserted them.
- These days most beneficiaries are not deserted wives; they are single women who have had children.
- The millions who until now have been denied political representation have thus far expressed their dissatisfaction and alienation by deserting their old party.
Synonyms abandon, leave, give up, cast off, turn one's back on throw over, betray, jilt, break (up) with neglect, shun leave high and dry, leave in the lurch, leave behind, strand, leave stranded, maroon relinquish, renounce informal walk/run out on, rat on, drop, dump, ditch British informal give someone the push, give someone the big E, bin off archaic forsake renounce, renege on, repudiate, forswear, relinquish, wash one's hands of, have no more truck with, have done with, abjure, disavow abandon, turn one's back on, betray apostatize, recant archaic forsake rare disprofess abandoned, forsaken, cast off/aside, thrown over, betrayed, jilted shunned, neglected stranded, marooned relinquished, renounced forlorn, bereft informal dumped, ditched, dropped - 1.1 (of people) leave (a place), causing it to appear empty.
（一定数量的人）离弃（某地） the tourists have deserted the beaches Example sentencesExamples - The place was mostly deserted and the wait staff had assembled in the bar to watch the game.
- At the end of the winter season and a few weeks away from the start of summer, the place was deserted.
- Glancing up and down the dark street, I noticed how utterly deserted the place was… and how alone we were.
- Naturally, they must drive along a virtually deserted country road.
- The place was practically deserted, so we had the run of almost every engine to ourselves.
- Despite beautiful sunny weather, the parks were virtually deserted.
- When I got back to the depot, the place was deserted.
- The usually choc-a-bloc Central Street park was almost deserted - leaving spaces free for shoppers as the council intended.
- Today, with it being a Tuesday, the park was virtually deserted.
- Viewers can't help but wonder why the place was deserted, and imagine the noise and fun of the games before.
- Kingston's normally bustling town centre was virtually deserted on Saturday morning as people chose to stay at home to watch the match.
- Unfortunately it was raining, windy and cold and when we got there the place was deserted.
- As he scanned the scene inside, it became obvious the place was deserted.
- I thought it was a little strange, as it was a Friday night and the place was deserted.
- After the hectic activity during daytime, the area is virtually deserted by dusk with the chirping of crickets casting an eerie spell on the setting.
- Arriving a good five minutes before the film was due to start, the place was deserted apart from four guys at the door.
- The place was deserted so I talked to Terry, the security guard.
- We get long, panoramic shots of night-time Paris - rooftops, deserted streets, empty bars and restaurants.
- Perhaps because the hotel is new, the place was almost deserted.
- His door flung open to find an empty couch and deserted living room.
Synonyms empty, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpeopled, abandoned, evacuated, vacant, vacated untenanted, tenantless, unfrequented, neglected secluded, isolated, desolate, lonely, solitary, godforsaken, forlorn - 1.2 (of a quality or ability) fail (someone) when most needed.
（品质或能力在最需要时）舍弃，背离（某人） 运气（在她最需要时）离她而去。 Example sentencesExamples - This time though, lady luck and self belief have both deserted him.
- My school French has deserted me in the hour of need.
- By 1980, her ability to overpower the political pressures on the judges had deserted her.
- But last year, his form of a year earlier completely deserted him and he was substituted in a number of games.
- She was shivering, visibly, as though her ability to withstand the elements had suddenly deserted her.
- However, even though he managed to keep the 35-year-old out for a third time four minutes before the break, his luck was finally to desert him.
- Lady Luck, however, deserted him on the night but he was magnanimous and dignified in defeat.
- His ability to feel had deserted him and it left him empty.
- That these qualities could desert him so spectacularly at the club's training ground in the face of one legitimate question is revealing, if not even alarming.
- When the wind hit her as she rounded the top bend, her form and speed deserted her.
- Indeed his weapon, an ability to swing the ball, seemed to have deserted him.
- In one of the tightest contests in living memory, Lady Luck deserted him at the end.
- Your lucky number has deserted you and eaten your dignity.
- His first kick from defence missed touch by several yards and his normally unerring passing skills seemed to have deserted him.
- I do take risks though, so I hope my luck doesn't desert me in the future.
- However, in recent weeks his judgment has deserted him too.
- My Excel skills have deserted me - I was unable to make a graph that successfully showed the readings and the variance between them.
- A similar form of words may have entered Eriksson's mind as the luck of the draw deserted his team.
- However, skill wins out in the long run because luck will desert you one day.
- Don't count on this to be the case because Lady Luck will desert you in a flash.
- 1.3Military no object Illegally leave the armed forces.
his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert Example sentencesExamples - Repeated attempts were made to establish personal contacts with servicemen in order to induce them to desert and surrender.
- Within days the enemy force had either been destroyed, surrendered or deserted.
- After that, the troops began to desert en masse.
- Soon disillusioned by the lot of the common soldier, he deserted and returned home; his youth saving him from military punishment.
- Now if he returns to the U.S. he faces several years in prison - or possibly the death penalty - for deserting during wartime.
Synonyms abscond, defect, run away, make off, decamp, flee, fly, bolt, turn tail, go absent without leave, take French leave, depart, quit, escape informal go AWOL
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French deserter, from late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus 'left waste' (see desert2). There are three words spelled desert, two of which are related. The word for ‘a waterless, desolate area’, and the (differently pronounced) word meaning ‘to abandon’ both ultimately go back to Latin deserere ‘to leave, forsake’. The third desert usually appears in phrases such as to get your just deserts, ‘to receive what you deserve’. It derives from Latin deservire ‘to serve well’, the source of deserve (Middle English). The dessert (mid 16th century) with a double ‘s’ meaning ‘a sweet course served at the end of a meal’, is from French desservir ‘to clear the table’.
Rhymesadvert, alert, animadvert, assert, avert, Bert, blurt, Burt, cert, chert, concert, controvert, convert, curt, dessert, dirt, divert, exert, flirt, girt, hurt, inert, insert, introvert, Kurt, malapert, overt, pert, quirt, shirt, skirt, spirt, spurt, squirt, Sturt, subvert, vert, wort, yurt noun ˈdɛzətˈdɛzərt 1A waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand. the desert of the Sinai peninsula is a harsh place mass noun drought and deforestation are turning fragile grasslands into desert Example sentencesExamples - Subtropical deserts and tropical savannahs and rainforests have similarly expanded and contracted, imposing their morphogenetic overprint on older landscapes.
- Riding off trail or driving off designated areas permanently damages the land in the western desert.
- The world sees the desert as a desolate land offering only hardship and discomfort.
- They occupy a wide range of environment from the edges of the desert to savannah lands (favoured by N. meleagris) and high forests.
- His explorations, surveys and reports, which stated that the north had some excellent pastoral lands and were not just arid sands and saline deserts, attracted pastoralists to the area.
- The black stone-wall stood out like a piece of coal in the snow, for it had been placed on a barren landscape, most of which had been covered with sand from the nearby desert.
- I wanted to ride out into the desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers.
- The film starts by introducing ways to find a plot of land in the desert using satellite images, topographical maps and a compass.
- The 37 areas that qualified for wilderness status include tropical rain forests, wetlands, deserts, and arctic tundra.
- They had left the forested area and were back into the sand of the desert.
- The helicopter slowly landed in the soft sand of a desert in the middle of nowhere, Nevada.
- The land was mostly flat and featureless; even the most desolate of the southern deserts had some rolling sand dunes and some cacti.
- It was a desolate barren land covered in deserts, forgotten and ignored by many.
- The sands of the desert gave way to a grass-land, though the grass had a rotten look to it, and was slippery to walk on.
- The boy ran across the desert, the sand flying up from his heels.
- The city had almost become overrun by the desert, the sand sweeping in to cover the streets and all items left out.
- He'd taken to spending long periods of time in the parkland, or out in the desert beyond the planted area, doing what, Annie didn't know.
- Either it had been moved by someone, or something as was more likely, or it had been covered by the shifting sands of the desert.
- Most of this area is desert or desertified sand suitable only for grazing.
- He survived the crash by landing in ‘the biggest sand dune in the desert.’
Synonyms wasteland, waste, wilderness, wilds, dust bowl, barren land - 1.1 A situation or place considered dull and uninteresting.
沉闷乏味的境况（或地区）；荒漠 文化荒漠。 Example sentencesExamples - The town was recently branded a cultural desert in a recent State of the Nation report.
- Often derided as a cultural desert, it is listed as boasting plenty for arts lovers to experience.
- The cultural desert has found an oasis from which to market its future.
- People like that can only become popular in the cultural desert of the country.
- Oh, but doesn't village life automatically consign you to a cultural desert?
- Image and virtual reality are everything these days, explaining why the city, burdened with an inferiority complex, forever sees itself as a cultural desert.
- In that cultural desert, the President on screen appears a dignified and generous oasis of calm and benevolence.
- And they have been used as evidence to back the often-repeated slur that the town is a cultural desert.
- This is not to say that it was a cultural desert: rather it was a repository of tradition that was constantly drawn on in terms of books and in terms of the iconography of its monuments.
- What you don't realise is that the country's a cultural desert.
- Within three years, they hope the area will have at least two major arts projects and a host of neighbourhood events which will ensure that huge swathes of planned new homes do not become a cultural desert.
- There's a thriving energy and excitement about, and the whole perception of the town as a cultural desert is so wrong.
- We remain determined to guide the two of them through the cultural desert that is modern childhood but since they grew out of Postman Pat all the entertainment aimed at them seems so empty of real value.
- The Istanbul of the 1970s was considered to be something of a cultural desert - certainly in terms of classical music.
- The arts have not developed as quickly as the economy, and Hong Kong is often considered a cultural desert.
Synonyms uninteresting place/period, unproductive place/period, wasteland
2rare A flock of lapwings. a desert of lapwings rises from a ploughed field Example sentencesExamples - It was pleasant to see a vast desert of lapwings, for these birds have quite disappeared from the part of North Cheshire in which I live.
adjective ˈdɛzətˈdɛzərt 1attributive Like a desert. 像沙漠的 overgrazing has created desert conditions 过度放牧已造成了荒漠环境。 Example sentencesExamples - The harsh weather conditions and the desert environment played havoc with our weapon systems as well as our personnel.
- For millennia, people have successfully converted desert landscapes into agricultural land through irrigation.
- He believes that the model, which was designed in the 1960s, will perform better than a Landrover in desert conditions.
- Soil in countries in southern Europe has seriously depleted carbon levels, approaching desert conditions and could provide compost markets.
- Armaments were often inferior and needing attention to make them serviceable in desert conditions.
- Other sites of religious importance are located on the edges of the desert plain.
- Sarah looked ahead and saw two men charging at her through the desert sand.
- The American-designed tanker has the capacity to hold up to 20,000 litres of fuel, and can operate in both arctic and desert conditions.
- Tanks were also being prepared for desert conditions, with their filters and fans to be changed so they could cope with sand.
- The tree grows very slowly and thrives in desert conditions.
- I looked at the scorching desert sand as the silvery moon was cooling it.
- Suddenly I realised we were the only two Europeans in the whole desert landscape.
- He said that despite hostile desert conditions, morale among the servicemen was high.
- It has coped well with desert conditions, it has withstood attack from weapons which were designed to defeat it and its gun control equipment has proved to be outstanding.
- The two buildings' formal similarities derive from their similar functions and desert landscapes.
- In a related story, also in the Telegraph, it seems that the army is to modify 234 tanks - the equivalent of two armoured brigades - for use in desert conditions.
- This drastically minimized the harsh desert conditions and the reliability of the equipment increased.
- When I feel stressed, I want to lie down in warm desert sand.
- The goal was to find a plant that could grow in dry desert conditions with little care, yet still absorb a significant amount of uranium.
- According to field reports, there was ‘complete satisfaction’ with it, even in the harsh desert conditions.
Synonyms arid, dry, moistureless, dried up, parched, scorched, burnt, hot, burning, torrid barren, bare, stark uncultivatable, infertile, non-fertile, unproductive, unfruitful, dehydrated, sterile - 1.1 Uninhabited and desolate.
无人居住的，荒凉的 无人烟的荒地。 Example sentencesExamples - She escaped the fatal ambush on a lonely desert stretch of the 3000 km-long Stuart Highway, which runs between Adelaide and Darwin.
- As they sat on gray folding chairs in the desert wasteland, the war seemed to be in dismal shape.
- The daughter did the best she could, trudging womanfully along until she came to a bleak desert land.
- The longer we stay, the harder it will be to leave because of the resources wasted on this sad desert land.
- I think on a desert island the river journey would be even more evocative.
- They will not be used much for riding, as their blowholes will prove too tempting a prospect for lonely cowboys in the vast desert biomes of the future.
- Though if you wanted to elope to a desert island, I'd understand.
- Her mouth and throat were as dry as the desert wastes.
- While having it fixed, she saw a small, empty, desolate theater, which was attached to an abandoned desert inn.
- Whereas the striped mouse is solitary in grasslands, it forms social groups in desert habitats.
- As the Carter family drive across the desert wastes of America, a feral family of savage cannibals attacks them.
- I was in heaven taking each long, solitary, rocky desert ride on a test bike, once I had climbed past the hordes of people on the lower slopes of the mountain.
- How many nights had he watched over me and kept me warm along some trout stream or in a lonely desert camp?
- It might add interest to what has become a long chase across desert wastes.
- The desolate pine forests, craggy gullies and rugged desert country are all perfectly suited to this style of movie.
- His standard operating procedure is to pick up lost and lonely women from the desert highways of the southwest.
- Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
Synonyms uninhabited, empty, solitary, lonely, desolate, bleak, dismal, waste wild, uncultivated, untended, untilled
OriginMiddle English: via Old French from late Latin desertum 'something left waste', neuter past participle of deserere 'leave, forsake'. verbdəˈzərtdəˈzərt [with object]1Abandon (a person, cause, or organization) in a way considered disloyal or treacherous. 遗弃，背弃（人，事业，组织） we feel our public representatives have deserted us Example sentencesExamples - When the Government deserts them, who else is there to listen to the plight of the lottery people?
- How was his third wife to know that he had deserted his still-living first wife?
- The millions who until now have been denied political representation have thus far expressed their dissatisfaction and alienation by deserting their old party.
- Was such a party bound to desert its essential core of supporters, they working class, in its attempt to secure the votes and support of others?
- And they are very disaffected with a Labour Party they believe has deserted them.
- Nonconformists were outraged and many of those who had deserted the party in 1886 came back.
- White working class voters are deserting social democratic parties around the western world.
- It fears that its voters, particularly the younger generation, will desert the party if it is seen to capitulate to a unionist agenda.
- By 1914 most of their best-known intellectuals had quarrelled with Lenin's tactics and deserted the party.
- His customers deserted his food kiosk and his wife left him.
- But now is not the time to desert the Labour Party, now is the time to reclaim it.
- I have not deserted the military nor been disloyal to the men and women of the military.
- Millions of voters and members have deserted these parties and are seeking an alternative.
- What is worse about Henry's story is that he raised his three sons virtually single-handed after his wife deserted them.
- Those were dark times as friends deserted him and fans shunned him.
- Moreover, we cannot help but feel sorry for the emotionally lonely jeweler who lacks a wife and is deserted even by his housemaid.
- The enormous crowds delighted show organisers who had feared they may have deserted the event after last year's cancellation.
- The menace of grooms deserting their legally wedded wives is rampant.
- Near the end of the story, deserted by his wife, he returns to descend into alcoholism.
- These days most beneficiaries are not deserted wives; they are single women who have had children.
- In Germany, opinion polls have indicated that traditional voters are profoundly disillusioned with the Party and are deserting it in droves.
Synonyms abandoned, forsaken, cast aside, cast off, thrown over, betrayed, jilted abandon, leave, give up, cast off, turn one's back on renounce, renege on, repudiate, forswear, relinquish, wash one's hands of, have no more truck with, have done with, abjure, disavow - 1.1 (of a number of people) leave (a place), causing it to appear empty.
（一定数量的人）离弃（某地） good weather came after the summer hordes had deserted the beaches Example sentencesExamples - Today, with it being a Tuesday, the park was virtually deserted.
- The usually choc-a-bloc Central Street park was almost deserted - leaving spaces free for shoppers as the council intended.
- Glancing up and down the dark street, I noticed how utterly deserted the place was… and how alone we were.
- We get long, panoramic shots of night-time Paris - rooftops, deserted streets, empty bars and restaurants.
- Unfortunately it was raining, windy and cold and when we got there the place was deserted.
- The place was practically deserted, so we had the run of almost every engine to ourselves.
- Arriving a good five minutes before the film was due to start, the place was deserted apart from four guys at the door.
- Viewers can't help but wonder why the place was deserted, and imagine the noise and fun of the games before.
- The place was mostly deserted and the wait staff had assembled in the bar to watch the game.
- Despite beautiful sunny weather, the parks were virtually deserted.
- After the hectic activity during daytime, the area is virtually deserted by dusk with the chirping of crickets casting an eerie spell on the setting.
- I thought it was a little strange, as it was a Friday night and the place was deserted.
- The place was deserted so I talked to Terry, the security guard.
- Kingston's normally bustling town centre was virtually deserted on Saturday morning as people chose to stay at home to watch the match.
- When I got back to the depot, the place was deserted.
- Naturally, they must drive along a virtually deserted country road.
- Perhaps because the hotel is new, the place was almost deserted.
- As he scanned the scene inside, it became obvious the place was deserted.
- His door flung open to find an empty couch and deserted living room.
- At the end of the winter season and a few weeks away from the start of summer, the place was deserted.
Synonyms empty, uninhabited, unoccupied, unpeopled, abandoned, evacuated, vacant, vacated - 1.2 (of a quality or ability) fail (someone), especially at a crucial moment when most needed.
（品质或能力在最需要时）舍弃，背离（某人） 运气（在她最需要时）离她而去。 Example sentencesExamples - However, even though he managed to keep the 35-year-old out for a third time four minutes before the break, his luck was finally to desert him.
- Lady Luck, however, deserted him on the night but he was magnanimous and dignified in defeat.
- When the wind hit her as she rounded the top bend, her form and speed deserted her.
- This time though, lady luck and self belief have both deserted him.
- A similar form of words may have entered Eriksson's mind as the luck of the draw deserted his team.
- His first kick from defence missed touch by several yards and his normally unerring passing skills seemed to have deserted him.
- But last year, his form of a year earlier completely deserted him and he was substituted in a number of games.
- His ability to feel had deserted him and it left him empty.
- Don't count on this to be the case because Lady Luck will desert you in a flash.
- That these qualities could desert him so spectacularly at the club's training ground in the face of one legitimate question is revealing, if not even alarming.
- Indeed his weapon, an ability to swing the ball, seemed to have deserted him.
- I do take risks though, so I hope my luck doesn't desert me in the future.
- My school French has deserted me in the hour of need.
- My Excel skills have deserted me - I was unable to make a graph that successfully showed the readings and the variance between them.
- In one of the tightest contests in living memory, Lady Luck deserted him at the end.
- However, in recent weeks his judgment has deserted him too.
- By 1980, her ability to overpower the political pressures on the judges had deserted her.
- However, skill wins out in the long run because luck will desert you one day.
- She was shivering, visibly, as though her ability to withstand the elements had suddenly deserted her.
- Your lucky number has deserted you and eaten your dignity.
- 1.3Military no object (of a soldier) illegally run away from military service.
〔军〕（士兵）擅离职守 Example sentencesExamples - Now if he returns to the U.S. he faces several years in prison - or possibly the death penalty - for deserting during wartime.
- Soon disillusioned by the lot of the common soldier, he deserted and returned home; his youth saving him from military punishment.
- Repeated attempts were made to establish personal contacts with servicemen in order to induce them to desert and surrender.
- Within days the enemy force had either been destroyed, surrendered or deserted.
- After that, the troops began to desert en masse.
Synonyms abscond, defect, run away, make off, decamp, flee, fly, bolt, turn tail, go absent without leave, take french leave, depart, quit, escape
OriginLate Middle English: from Old French deserter, from late Latin desertare, from Latin desertus ‘left waste’ (see desert). nounˈdɛzərtˈdezərt 1A dry, barren area of land, especially one covered with sand, that is characteristically desolate, waterless, and without vegetation. 沙漠 Example sentencesExamples - The boy ran across the desert, the sand flying up from his heels.
- I wanted to ride out into the desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers.
- The 37 areas that qualified for wilderness status include tropical rain forests, wetlands, deserts, and arctic tundra.
- They occupy a wide range of environment from the edges of the desert to savannah lands (favoured by N. meleagris) and high forests.
- The city had almost become overrun by the desert, the sand sweeping in to cover the streets and all items left out.
- The land was mostly flat and featureless; even the most desolate of the southern deserts had some rolling sand dunes and some cacti.
- Riding off trail or driving off designated areas permanently damages the land in the western desert.
- The helicopter slowly landed in the soft sand of a desert in the middle of nowhere, Nevada.
- The film starts by introducing ways to find a plot of land in the desert using satellite images, topographical maps and a compass.
- The black stone-wall stood out like a piece of coal in the snow, for it had been placed on a barren landscape, most of which had been covered with sand from the nearby desert.
- Either it had been moved by someone, or something as was more likely, or it had been covered by the shifting sands of the desert.
- His explorations, surveys and reports, which stated that the north had some excellent pastoral lands and were not just arid sands and saline deserts, attracted pastoralists to the area.
- He survived the crash by landing in ‘the biggest sand dune in the desert.’
- Most of this area is desert or desertified sand suitable only for grazing.
- He'd taken to spending long periods of time in the parkland, or out in the desert beyond the planted area, doing what, Annie didn't know.
- The world sees the desert as a desolate land offering only hardship and discomfort.
- Subtropical deserts and tropical savannahs and rainforests have similarly expanded and contracted, imposing their morphogenetic overprint on older landscapes.
- It was a desolate barren land covered in deserts, forgotten and ignored by many.
- The sands of the desert gave way to a grass-land, though the grass had a rotten look to it, and was slippery to walk on.
- They had left the forested area and were back into the sand of the desert.
Synonyms wasteland, waste, wilderness, wilds, dust bowl, barren land - 1.1 A situation or area considered dull and uninteresting.
沉闷乏味的境况（或地区）；荒漠 文化荒漠。 Example sentencesExamples - The arts have not developed as quickly as the economy, and Hong Kong is often considered a cultural desert.
- We remain determined to guide the two of them through the cultural desert that is modern childhood but since they grew out of Postman Pat all the entertainment aimed at them seems so empty of real value.
- Oh, but doesn't village life automatically consign you to a cultural desert?
- People like that can only become popular in the cultural desert of the country.
- Often derided as a cultural desert, it is listed as boasting plenty for arts lovers to experience.
- And they have been used as evidence to back the often-repeated slur that the town is a cultural desert.
- This is not to say that it was a cultural desert: rather it was a repository of tradition that was constantly drawn on in terms of books and in terms of the iconography of its monuments.
- The town was recently branded a cultural desert in a recent State of the Nation report.
- The Istanbul of the 1970s was considered to be something of a cultural desert - certainly in terms of classical music.
- In that cultural desert, the President on screen appears a dignified and generous oasis of calm and benevolence.
- The cultural desert has found an oasis from which to market its future.
- There's a thriving energy and excitement about, and the whole perception of the town as a cultural desert is so wrong.
- Within three years, they hope the area will have at least two major arts projects and a host of neighbourhood events which will ensure that huge swathes of planned new homes do not become a cultural desert.
- Image and virtual reality are everything these days, explaining why the city, burdened with an inferiority complex, forever sees itself as a cultural desert.
- What you don't realise is that the country's a cultural desert.
Synonyms uninteresting period, uninteresting place, unproductive period, unproductive place, wasteland
adjectiveˈdɛzərtˈdezərt 1attributive Like a desert. 像沙漠的 overgrazing has created desert conditions 过度放牧已造成了荒漠环境。 Example sentencesExamples - When I feel stressed, I want to lie down in warm desert sand.
- He believes that the model, which was designed in the 1960s, will perform better than a Landrover in desert conditions.
- Other sites of religious importance are located on the edges of the desert plain.
- He said that despite hostile desert conditions, morale among the servicemen was high.
- I looked at the scorching desert sand as the silvery moon was cooling it.
- Tanks were also being prepared for desert conditions, with their filters and fans to be changed so they could cope with sand.
- The two buildings' formal similarities derive from their similar functions and desert landscapes.
- Sarah looked ahead and saw two men charging at her through the desert sand.
- Soil in countries in southern Europe has seriously depleted carbon levels, approaching desert conditions and could provide compost markets.
- It has coped well with desert conditions, it has withstood attack from weapons which were designed to defeat it and its gun control equipment has proved to be outstanding.
- The goal was to find a plant that could grow in dry desert conditions with little care, yet still absorb a significant amount of uranium.
- For millennia, people have successfully converted desert landscapes into agricultural land through irrigation.
- Suddenly I realised we were the only two Europeans in the whole desert landscape.
- This drastically minimized the harsh desert conditions and the reliability of the equipment increased.
- In a related story, also in the Telegraph, it seems that the army is to modify 234 tanks - the equivalent of two armoured brigades - for use in desert conditions.
- According to field reports, there was ‘complete satisfaction’ with it, even in the harsh desert conditions.
- Armaments were often inferior and needing attention to make them serviceable in desert conditions.
- The tree grows very slowly and thrives in desert conditions.
- The American-designed tanker has the capacity to hold up to 20,000 litres of fuel, and can operate in both arctic and desert conditions.
- The harsh weather conditions and the desert environment played havoc with our weapon systems as well as our personnel.
Synonyms arid, dry, moistureless, dried up, parched, scorched, burnt, hot, burning, torrid - 1.1 Uninhabited and desolate.
无人居住的，荒凉的 无人烟的荒地。 Example sentencesExamples - Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to an inhabited town hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them.
- I was in heaven taking each long, solitary, rocky desert ride on a test bike, once I had climbed past the hordes of people on the lower slopes of the mountain.
- The daughter did the best she could, trudging womanfully along until she came to a bleak desert land.
- I think on a desert island the river journey would be even more evocative.
- Her mouth and throat were as dry as the desert wastes.
- Whereas the striped mouse is solitary in grasslands, it forms social groups in desert habitats.
- The longer we stay, the harder it will be to leave because of the resources wasted on this sad desert land.
- She escaped the fatal ambush on a lonely desert stretch of the 3000 km-long Stuart Highway, which runs between Adelaide and Darwin.
- As the Carter family drive across the desert wastes of America, a feral family of savage cannibals attacks them.
- They will not be used much for riding, as their blowholes will prove too tempting a prospect for lonely cowboys in the vast desert biomes of the future.
- While having it fixed, she saw a small, empty, desolate theater, which was attached to an abandoned desert inn.
- The desolate pine forests, craggy gullies and rugged desert country are all perfectly suited to this style of movie.
- His standard operating procedure is to pick up lost and lonely women from the desert highways of the southwest.
- Though if you wanted to elope to a desert island, I'd understand.
- As they sat on gray folding chairs in the desert wasteland, the war seemed to be in dismal shape.
- How many nights had he watched over me and kept me warm along some trout stream or in a lonely desert camp?
- It might add interest to what has become a long chase across desert wastes.
Synonyms uninhabited, empty, solitary, lonely, desolate, bleak, dismal, waste
OriginMiddle English: via Old French from late Latin desertum ‘something left waste’, neuter past participle of deserere ‘leave, forsake’. |