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单词 desert island
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Definition of desert island in English:

desert island

noun
  • A remote tropical island, typically an uninhabited one.

    荒岛

    Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I think on a desert island the river journey would be even more evocative.
    • Due to some unforeseen plot machination, your character is washed up on the beach of a tropical desert island.
    • Most of us carry a store of memories and hopes of beach life, from rock pools and sandcastles to romantic encounters walking along the silver sands on a desert island.
    • But hurry, they won't be forever deserted desert islands.
    • This means that paddling a kayak around desert islands during the day and camping amongst the cactus at night is easy.
    • If I got marooned on a desert island I'd be barking mad within three days.
    • I liked to play pirate games back then, sailing the rolling main, fighting bad people, sinking their ships, and burying my treasure under palm trees on desert islands.
    • If you had to select and take one instrument to accompany the rest of your life on a desert island, only one instrument, what would it be?
    • If you were stranded on a desert island, which five items would you chose to have with you?
    • If we were to be castaways on a desert island, these are the goods we would pack by the caseload.
    • Imagine, for the sake of argument, that you have been stranded on a desert island, a veritable tropical paradise.
    • Today, it is practically unknown to outsiders, a remote marine wilderness teeming with undersea life and dotted with day-dreamy desert islands.
    • If I had to take only two albums to a desert island with me, this would be the one I choose without even giving it a second thought.
    • Who would you like to be stranded on a desert island with?
    • What would be your three desert island essentials?
    • Its story of a group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after an aeroplane crash who descend into savagery still has the power to shock and enthral.
    • A poor Jamaican fisherman was shipwrecked on a desert island.
    • I feel like growling, packing a bag and heading for a remote desert island where only the wind bothers to whisper.
    • By then the atoll's two desert islands had been planted with grass and ironwoods on soil imported from Guam.
    • Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?

Definition of desert island in US English:

desert island

nounˌdezərt ˈīləndˌdɛzərt ˈaɪlənd
  • A remote uninhabited tropical island.

    Carwyn seemed like a castaway on a desert island
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I think on a desert island the river journey would be even more evocative.
    • Due to some unforeseen plot machination, your character is washed up on the beach of a tropical desert island.
    • If you were stranded on a desert island, which five items would you chose to have with you?
    • I feel like growling, packing a bag and heading for a remote desert island where only the wind bothers to whisper.
    • If we were to be castaways on a desert island, these are the goods we would pack by the caseload.
    • Today, it is practically unknown to outsiders, a remote marine wilderness teeming with undersea life and dotted with day-dreamy desert islands.
    • Imagine, for the sake of argument, that you have been stranded on a desert island, a veritable tropical paradise.
    • What would be your three desert island essentials?
    • But hurry, they won't be forever deserted desert islands.
    • This means that paddling a kayak around desert islands during the day and camping amongst the cactus at night is easy.
    • Most of us carry a store of memories and hopes of beach life, from rock pools and sandcastles to romantic encounters walking along the silver sands on a desert island.
    • I liked to play pirate games back then, sailing the rolling main, fighting bad people, sinking their ships, and burying my treasure under palm trees on desert islands.
    • Who would you like to be stranded on a desert island with?
    • Which literary character would you least like to be stranded on a desert island with and why?
    • Its story of a group of schoolboys stranded on a desert island after an aeroplane crash who descend into savagery still has the power to shock and enthral.
    • A poor Jamaican fisherman was shipwrecked on a desert island.
    • By then the atoll's two desert islands had been planted with grass and ironwoods on soil imported from Guam.
    • If you had to select and take one instrument to accompany the rest of your life on a desert island, only one instrument, what would it be?
    • If I got marooned on a desert island I'd be barking mad within three days.
    • If I had to take only two albums to a desert island with me, this would be the one I choose without even giving it a second thought.
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