desolate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 荒芜的, 无人居住的, 孤寂的; vt. 使荒芜, 使荒凉，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, I send my desolate cry across the sea, hoping it may perhaps reach your ears through the great bank of Tilson known at Paris!
-- Ghosts all!The ghost of beauty, the ghost of state-liness, the ghost of elegance, the ghost of pride, the ghost of frivolity, the ghost of wit, the ghost of youth, the ghost of age, all waiting their dismissal from the desolate shore, all turning on him eyes that were changed by the death they had died in coming there.
-- She must be very desolate to-night.'
-- He walked on the other side of it and protected it to the courtyard of the house where the afflicted heart so happy in the memorable time when he had revealed his own desolate heart to it outwatched the awful night.
-- The question was addressed to the wood-sawyer, who hurriedly replied in the affirmative: seizing the occasion to add that he was the most ardent of Republicans, and that he would be in effect the most desolate of Republicans, if any-thing prevented him from enjoying the pleasure of smoking his afternoon pipe in the contemplation of the droll national barber.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and there, while across the field flowed abroad canal or river.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To Crynssen County, Leopolis with its four thousand people was a metropolis, but in the pinched stillness of the dawn it was a tiny graveyard: Main Street a sandy expanse, the low shops desolate as huts.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tohear the wind getting up out at sea, to know that the fog wascreeping over the desolate flat outside, and to look at the fire andthink that there was no house near but this one, and this one a boat,was like enchantment.
-- I gazed upon the schoolroom into which he took me, as the mostforlorn and desolate place I had ever seen.
-- I had already brokenout into a desolate cry, and felt an orphan in the wide world.
-- Next morning I met the whole family at the coach-office, and sawthem, with a desolate heart, take their places outside, at the back.
-- Again she repressed the tears that had 634begun to flow; and, putting out her trembling hand, and touchingMr. Peggotty, as if there was some healing virtue in him, wentaway along the desolate road.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wondered that the request should have come at this moment, for the strife was over, and they were on a most desolate hill, far from every human habitation, and the hour was getting late.
-- So desolate was Bathsheba this evening, that in an absolute hunger for pity and sympathy, and miserable in that she appeared to have outlived the only true friendship she had ever owned, she put on her bonnet and cloak and went down to Oak's house just after sunset, guided on her way by the pale primrose rays of a crescent moon a few days old.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The labours I endured were no longer to be allevi-ated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made 169me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoy-ment of pleasure.
-- If, therefore, I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth.
-- Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world.
-- Have a care; I will work at your de-struction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you shall curse the hour of your birth.'
-- I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt aggrieved, moreover, that Scarlett should still look desolate after being offered the best ofthe County boys and Tara, too.
-- But for the most part the sunny valley was abandoned and desolate and the untended cropsstood in parching fields.
-- Melanie did not know there was no home and thatthey were alone in a mad and desolate world.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Mr. Pocket, in an outbreak of desolate desperation.
-- She reserved it for me to restore the desolate house, admit the sunshine into the dark rooms, set the clocks a-going and the cold hearths a-blazing, tear down the cobwebs, destroy the vermin,--in short, do all the shining deeds of the young Knight of romance, and marry the Princess.
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