desolate「无人居住的；荒无人烟的」运用

desolate「无人寓居的；荒无火食的」运用

Word of the Day：May 26, 2021

desolate

无人寓居的；荒无火食的；荒凉的

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wd20210526.mp32:15来自E语Tong

Definition

1：devoid of inhabitants and visitors：deserted

没有住民和没有游客：冷清、荒凉

2：joyless, disconsolate, and sorrowful through or as if through separation from a loved one

（经过或像是经过）与所爱的人分散而感受无助，懊丧，伤心

3 a：showing the effects of abandonment and neglect：dilapidated

被遗弃和被无视的影响：破败的、年久失修的

b：barren, lifeless

荒凉的、瘠薄的，无生命的

c：devoid of warmth, comfort, or hope gloomy

缺乏暖和、温馨的或短少渴望的

Examples

"In the final stretch of the long journey from Pyongyang to Moscow, a Russian diplomat loads his family's possessions onto a wooden cart.… Through the biting February cold, the cart inches through the desolate North Korean countryside as the diplomat pushes from behind to help the group of eight reach the Russian borders." — Jean H. Lee, The Wilson Quarterly, 3 Mar. 2021

在从平壤到莫斯科的最初一段远程旅游中，一名俄罗斯交际官将家人的产业装上了一辆木车……在二月彻骨的严寒中，交际官在后方推着车在荒凉的朝鲜乡村中缓慢行进，协助八国团体抵达俄罗斯疆域。”

"Julien Baker, as she's adding reverb to her guitar, strives to add chilling effects to her already desolate words, not to make them feel more relatable. She wants them to sting." — Bre Offenberger, The Post (Athens, Ohio), 5 Apr. 2021

朱利安·贝克（Julien Baker）在为吉他曲添加混响时，积极为瘠薄的语句增加令人线人一新的后果，不是使它们变得亲密。她渴望它们（使人）有刺痛感（能震动人的神经的以为？）。

Did You Know?

The word desolate hasn't strayed far from its Latin roots: its earliest meaning of "deserted" mirrors that of its Latin source dēsōlātus, which comes from the verb dēsōlāre, meaning "to leave all alone, forsake, empty of inhabitants." That word's root is sōlus, meaning "lone, acting without a partner, lonely, deserted," source too of sole, soliloquy, solitary, solitude, and solo. Desolate also functions as a verb with its most common meanings being "to lay waste" and "to make wretched; to make someone deeply dejected or distressed."

“desolate”并没有太偏离其拉丁的词根：最早的意思是“deserted「被遗弃的」”，反应了它的拉丁语词源 dēsōlātus ，它来主动词 dēsōlāre，意思是“to leave all alone「掉臂统统，丢弃，无人寓居」”。这个词的词根是sōlus，意思是“ lone「孤单的」， acting without a partner「无伴之旅」，lonely「孤单的」， deserted「被遗弃的」”，也是sole「仅有的；唯一的」, soliloquy「独白」, solitary「单独的；单独的」, solitude「独居，独处」，和solo「合唱；合奏」的词源。Desolate也作为动词使用，最稀有的意思是“to lay waste「使荒凉」”和“to make wresched「使不幸」”;to make someone deeply dejected or distressed「使或人十分懊丧或痛楚」。”

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