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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But just as exhaustion was about to make short work of any further ascent, and Glenarvan's heart began to sink as he thought of the snow lying far as the eye could reach, and of the intense cold, and saw the shadow of night fast overspreading the desolate peaks, and knew they had not a roof to shelter them, suddenly the Major stopped and said, in a calm voice, "A hut!"
-- But desolate as the country appeared, Thalcave was on his guard against surprises, and gave orders to his party to form themselves in a close platoon.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some-where there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jove, the lord of counsel, lay with Laodameia, and she bore him noble Sarpedon; but when Bellerophon came to be hated by all the gods, he wandered all desolate and dismayed upon the Alean plain, gnawing at his own heart, and shunning the path of man.
-- There he sits by the ships all desolate for the loss of his dear comrade, and though the others are gone to their dinner he will neither eat nor drink.
-- Bury me with all speed that I may pass the gates of Hades; the ghosts, vain shadows of men that can labour no more, drive me away from them; they will not yet suffer me to join those that are beyond the river, and I wander all desolate by the wide gates of the house of Hades.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I did not feel then that I was lonely, that I had come out from the world into a desolate place.
-- I left my lair as the crowds diminished, and prowled cautiously out into the less desolate parts of the shop.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then there was a desolate space covered with a white sand, and then anoth-er expanse of tangled bushes.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then there lift-ed up a huge gray head that Mowgli knew well, and the hot air was filled with the most desolate cry of all the jungle the hunting howl of a wolf at midday.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The chief was as good as his word, and Duncan now found himself alone in that wild and desolate abode with the helpless invalid and the fierce and dangerous brute.
-- At her feet was seated the desolate Munro.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something, however, I fear me, must have gone wrong, for he certainly sallied forth, after no very great interval, with an air quite desolate and chapfallen.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Pacific is more desolate than other seas; its spaces seem more vast, and the most ordinary journey upon it has somehow the feeling of an adventure.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Was this barren spot the desolate refuge of sea-birds, strewn with stones and destitute of vegetation, attached to a more important archipelago?
-- A few sea-birds frequented this desolate coast, gulls, great albatrosses, as well as wild duck, for which Pencroft had a great fancy.
-- They might have believed themselves to be on the desolate coast of some island in the Antarctic regions which the ice had invaded.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had nobody to converse with, but now and then this neighbour; no work to be done, but by the la-bour of my hands; and I used to say, I lived just like a man cast away upon some desolate island, that had nobody there but himself.
-- some hundreds of leagues, out of the ordinary course of the trade of mankind, I had great reason to consider it as a determination of Heaven, that in this desolate place, and in this desolate manner, I should end my life.
-- But something always returned swift upon me to check these thoughts, and to reprove me; and particularly one day, walking with my gun in my hand by the seaside, I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when reason, as it were, expostulated with me the other way, thus: 'Well, you are in a desolate condition, it is true; but, pray remember, where are the rest of you?
-- I now began to consider seriously my condition, and the circumstances I was reduced to; and I drew up the state of my affairs in writing, not so much to leave them to any that were to come after me - for I was likely to have but few heirs - as to deliver my thoughts from daily poring over them, and afflicting my mind; and as my reason began now to mas-ter my despondency, I began to comfort myself as well as I could, and to set the good against the evil, that I might have something to distinguish my case from worse; and I stat-ed very impartially, like debtor and creditor, the comforts I enjoyed against the miseries I suffered, thus:- Evil: I am cast upon a horrible, desolate island, void of all hope of recovery.
-- that it must be some of the savages of the mainland opposite who had wandered out to sea in their ca-noes, and either driven by the currents or by contrary winds, had made the island, and had been on shore, but were gone away again to sea; being as loath, perhaps, to have stayed in this desolate island as I would have been to have had them.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Toil, now that she was free of it, seemed even a more desolate thing than when she was part of it.
-- He looked rather determined now, in a desolate sort of way, and Carrie felt very sorry.
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