/ˈdesələt/1
- (of a place) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak and dismal emptiness无人烟的; 荒凉的; 凄凉的：
a desolate Pennine moor.
荒无人烟的奔宁山脉沼泽地。
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- feeling or showing misery, unhappiness, or loneliness痛苦的, 不幸的; 孤独的：
I suddenly felt desolate and bereft.
我突然产生了一种凄苦落寞的感觉。
/ˈdesəleɪt/
with obj.
1- make (a place) appear bleakly and depressingly empty or bare使（地方）变得荒凉（或荒芜）：
the droughts that desolated the dry plains.
使这些干燥的平原变成一片荒芜的旱灾。
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- （一般作be desolated）make (someone) feel utterly wretched and unhappy使感到极其悲惨（或不幸）：
he was desolated by the deaths of his treasured friends.
他挚友的去世使他悲痛欲绝。
派生词
desolately
adverbdesolateness
noundesolator
noun词源
late Middle English: from Latin desolatus 'abandoned'， past participle of desolare, from de- 'thoroughly' + solus 'alone'.