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《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a needless question, for a new desolation in the desolate house had told me so.
-- I had done so, and was looking along the desolate garden walk, when I beheld a solitary figure in it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And if it be found that these nurses ever presume to entertain the girls with frightful or foolish stories, or the common follies practised by cham-bermaids among us, they are publicly whipped thrice about the city, imprisoned for a year, and banished for life to the most desolate part of the country.
-- I bemoaned my desolate widow and fatherless children.
-- I considered how impossible it was to pre-serve my life in so desolate a place, and how miserable my end must be: yet found myself so listless and desponding, that I had not the heart to rise; and before I could get spirits enough to creep out of my cave, the day was far advanced.
-- The natural love of life gave me some inward motion of joy, and I was ready to entertain a hope that this adven-ture might, some way or other, help to deliver me from the desolate place and condition I was in.
-- In this desolate condition I advanced forward, and soon got upon firm ground, where I sat down on a bank to rest myself, and consider what I had best do.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When they turned into a narrow street, Stephen glanced at his window with a dread that always haunted his desolate home; but it was open, as he had left it, and no one was there.
-- 'Well!If it should unhappily appear,' he said, 'after due pains and duty on my part, that I am brought to a position so desolate as this banishment, I shall not become the lady's persecutor.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I saw, however, on consulting the map, that we avoided a good deal of this rough country, by following the winding and desolate shores of the sea.
-- After a hearty repast, my uncle and the hunter-guide embarked on board the raft, while I remained alone upon the desolate shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Courtly ideas of Covent Garden, as a place with famous coffee-houses, where gentlemen wearing gold-laced coats and swords had quarrelled and fought duels; costly ideas of Covent Garden, as a place where there were flowers in winter at guineas a-piece, pine-apples at guineas a pound, and peas at guineas a pint; picturesque ideas of Covent Garden, as a place where there was a mighty theatre, showing wonderful and beautiful sights to richly-dressed ladies and gentlemen, and which was for ever far beyond the reach of poor Fanny or poor uncle; desolate ideas of Covent Garden, as having all those arches in it, where the miserable children in rags among whom she had just now passed, like young rats, slunk and hid, fed on offal, huddled together for warmth, and were hunted about (look to the rats young and old, all ye Barnacles, for before God they are eating away our foundations, and will bring the roofs on our heads!
-- Then breakfast in another painted chamber, damp-stained and of desolate proportions; and then the departure, which, to her timidity and sense of not being grand enough for her place in the ceremonies, was always an uneasy thing.
-- There was something of a desolate tone in those words; but, with a short proud laugh she took another walk, and after passing a great looking-glass came to another stop.
-- Mr Dorrit, though he had his castle-building to engage his mind, could not be quite easy in that desolate place.
-- After that, what with dozing and what with castle-building, he lost himself for a long time, so that there was a touch of morning on the eastward rim of the desolate Campagna when he crept to bed.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus, then, the muffled rollings of a milky sea; the bleak rustlings of the festooned frosts of mountains; the desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies; all these, to Ishmael, are as the shaking of that buffalo robe to the frightened colt!
-- But, at last, when turning to the eastward, the Cape winds began howling around us, and we rose and fell upon the long, troubled seas that are there; when the ivory-tusked Pequod sharply bowed to the blast, and gored the dark waves in her madness, till, like showers of silver chips, the foam-flakes flew over her bulwarks; then all this desolate vacuity of life went away, but gave place to sights more dismal than before.
-- If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York State, or the equally desolate Salisbury Plain in England; if casually encountering each other in such inhospitable wilds, these twain, for the life of them, cannot well avoid a mutual salutation; and stopping for a moment to interchange the news; and, perhaps, sitting down for a while and resting in concert: then, how much more natural that upon the illimitable Pine Barrens and Salisbury Plains of the sea, two whaling vessels descrying each other at the ends of the earth off lone Fanning's Island, or the far away King's Mills; how much more natural, I say, that under such circumstances these ships should not only interchange hails, but come into still closer, more friendly and sociable contact.
-- Far inland, nameless wails came from him, as desolate sounds from out ravines.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was alone in a strange place; and we all know how chilled and desolate the best of us will sometimes feel in such a situation.
-- By degrees, he grew more calm, and besought, in a low and broken voice, that he might be rescued from his present dangers; and that if any aid were to be raised up for a poor outcast boy who had never known the love of friends or kindred, it might come to him now, when, desolate and deserted, he stood alone in the midst of wickedness and guilt.
-- said the worthy matron, setting it down very hastily on the hob; 'a little stupid thing, that only holds a couple of cups!What use is it of, to anybody!Except,' said Mrs. Corney, pausing, 'except to a poor desolate creature like me.
-- she said, folding her thin hands together, "whether it be boy or girl, raise up some friends for it in this troubled world, and take pity upon a lonely desolate child, abandoned to its mercy!"'
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