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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While I was looking on this desolate scene, Captain Nemo said, in a sad voice:"Commander La Perouse set out 7th December, 1785, with his vessels La Boussole and the Astrolabe.
-- And over this desolate face of nature a stern silence reigned, scarcely broken by the flapping of the wings of petrels and puffins.
-- The vegetation of this desolate continent seemed to me much restricted.
-- At wonderful speed, a hundred feet beneath the water, it was leaving this desolate spot.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the birds were whistling for the first morning, and the hills at the back of the desolate lake stood radiant with the new mists, there was a straggling procession up to Shortlands, men bearing the bodies on a stretcher, Gerald going beside them, the two grey-bearded fathers following in silence.
-- Against the wall of Ursula's bedroom were her things a trunk, a work-basket, some books, loose coats, a hat-box, standing desolate in the universal emptiness of the dusk.
-- And now, at last, as she stood in the stern of the ship, in a pitch-dark, rather blowy night, feeling the motion of the sea, and watching the small, rather desolate little lights that twinkled on the shores of England, as on the shores of nowhere, watched them sinking smaller and smaller on the profound and living darkness, she felt her soul stirring to awake from its an脙娄sthetic sleep.
-- Strange, and desolate above all things, like disembarking from the Styx into the desolated underworld, was this landing at night.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An indistinct idea he had, that the child was desolate and in want of help; for he often drew her to his bosom and bade her be of good cheer, saying that they would not desert each other; but he seemed unable to contemplate their real position more distinctly, and was still the listless, passionless creature that suffering of mind and body had left him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Still slower, until the dim outlines of a desolate beach grew visible.
-- "Far away up the desolate slope I heard a harsh scream, and saw a thing like a huge white butterfly go slanting and fluttering up into the sky and, circling, disappear over some low hillocks beyond.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had heard the word, and I knew it stood for a horrible kind of punishment common enough among the buccaneers, in which the offender is put ashore with a little powder and shot and left behind on some desolate and distant island.
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