desolating

英 [ˈdesəleɪtɪŋ]

美 [ˈdesəleɪtɪŋ]

v.  使感到悲惨; 使感到凄凉; 使悲伤绝望
desolate的现在分词

柯林斯词典

The adjective is pronounced /'desələt/. The verb is pronounced /'desəleɪt/. 形容词读作/'desələt/，动词读作 /'desəleɪt/。


• ADJ-GRADED 荒凉的;荒芜的;荒废的;无人烟的
  Adesolateplace is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
  1. ...a desolate landscape of flat green fields broken by marsh...
     平坦绿野被沼泽割裂开的荒凉景色
  2. Half-ruined, hardly a building untouched, it's a desolate place.
     这里大半遭毁，几乎没有一栋建筑完好无损，变成了一块荒废之地。
• ADJ-GRADED 凄凉的;孤寂的;孤独忧伤的
  If someone isdesolate, they feel very sad, alone, and without hope.
  1. He was desolate without her.
     没有她，他感到孤独而凄凉。
• VERB 使不悦;使痛苦;使悲惨
  If somethingdesolatesyou, it upsets you and makes you very unhappy.
  1. Their inclination to wait and demand more resources desolated President Lincoln.
     他们总是等待并要求得到更多资财的倾向让林肯总统甚感不快。

双语例句

• O Frenchmen, O my countrymen, Let not your enemies, with their desolating doctrines, degrade your souls, and enervate your virtues!
  法兰西人，我的同胞啊，不要让你的敌人用那为人唾弃的原则使你的灵魂堕落，令你的美德削减吧！
• Most desolating were those evenings the belle-mere had envisaged for them.
  最最凄凉的要数婆婆给她们设计的夜晚。
• Result The characteristic electrophorograms of Bezoar, Artificial Bezoar, the gallstones in humans and false Bezoar were obtained by separating and desolating in three kinds of solution respectively.
  结果在该分离条件下，获得牛黄、人工牛黄、人胆结石及其伪品的特征性电泳图谱。
• Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches& Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet.
  权力就像肆虐的瘟疫，污染它所触及的一切&珀西。比希。雪莱，英国浪漫主义诗人。