desolation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 荒凉， 凄凉，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：
-- At Cape Momax the straits widened, and she was able to get round Narborough Isles and advance in a more southerly direction, till at length the rock of Cape Pilares, the extreme point of Desolation Island, came in sight, thirty-six hours after entering the straits.
-- How it was shorn of its ancient splendor!Often pillaged by the natives, burned in 1819, it lay in desolation and ruins, its walls still blackened by the flames, scarcely numbering 8,000 inhabitants, and already eclipsed by Talcahuano.
-- On arriving at Cape Pilares he had found the winds dead against him, and therefore made for the south, coasting along the Desolation Isle, and after going as far as the sixty-seventh degree southern latitude, had doubled Cape Horn, passed by Terra del Fuego and the Straits of Lemaire, keeping close to the Patagonian shore.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it was the best part of two hours before any human being ventured out again into the desolation of Iping street.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Brahmin legends assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi, which, like Mahomet's tomb, was once suspended between heaven and earth; though the Benares of to-day, which the Orientalists call the Athens of India, stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth, Passepartout caught glimpses of its brick houses and clay huts, giving an aspect of desolation to the place, as the train entered it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave up the double room at the front of his boarding-house for a hall-room at the rear, and in that narrow den he sat and mourned in a desolation of loneliness.
-- During his first obstetrical case, when the student with him was merely nervous as they fidgeted by the bed in the hard desolation of the hospital room, Fatty was terrified, and he longed as he had never longed for anything in his flabby yet wistful life to comfort this gray-faced, straining, unknown woman, to take her pains on himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last in my desolation Ibegan to consider that I was dreadfully in love with little Em'ly,and had been torn away from her to come here where no oneseemed to want me, or to care about me, half as much as she did.
-- He was quite passive now; and when I heard himcrying, the impulse that had been upon me to go down upon myknees, and ask their pardon for the desolation I had caused, andcurse Steerforth, yielded to a better feeling.
-- I soon carried desolation into the bosom ofour joys- not that I meant to do it, but that I was so full of thesubject- by asking Dora, without the smallest preparation, if shecould love a beggar?
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This also was my doing!And my father's woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-ac-cursed hands!Ye weep, unhappy ones, but these are not your last tears!Again shall you raise the funeral wail, and the sound of your lamentations shall again and again be heard!Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenanc-es, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!
-- 'It is well that you come here to whine over the desolation that you have made.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thenoise cracked like a whip in the still room and suddenly her rage was gone, and there was desolation in her heart.
-- Soon it would be night and they would be alone in this desolation that was death.
-- This desolation went to her heart as nothing shehad ever experienced.
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.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He was amazed, how so impotent and grovelling an insect as I' (these were his expressions) 'could entertain such inhu-man ideas, and in so familiar a manner, as to appear wholly unmoved at all the scenes of blood and desolation which I had painted as the common effects of those destructive 168 Gulliver's Travelsmachines; whereof,' he said, 'some evil genius, enemy to mankind, must have been the first contriver.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Would you have robbed me for no one's enrichment only for the greater desolation of this world of the immaterial part of my life, the spring and summer of my belief, my refuge from what is sordid and bad in the real things around me, my school in which I should have learned to be more humble and more trusting with them, and to hope in my little sphere to make them better?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She shook her head, after each slow repetition of the word, with an air of quiet desolation that he remembered long afterwards.
-- Now it was that the quiet desolation of her answer, 'No, No, No,' made to him that night in that very room that night when he had been shown the dawn of her altered fortune, and when other words had passed between them which he had been destined to remember in humiliation and a prisoner, rushed into his mind.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh!ye whose dead lie buried beneath the green grass; who standing among flowers can say here, here lies my beloved; ye know not the desolation that broods in bosoms like these.
-- When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without oh, weariness!heaviness!Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command! when I think of all this; only half-suspected, not so keenly known to me before and how for forty years I have fed upon dry salted fare fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil! when the poorest landsman has had fresh fruit to his daily hand, and broken the world's fresh bread to my mouldy crusts away, whole oceans away, from that young girl-wife I wedded past fifty, and sailed for Cape Horn the next day, leaving but one dent in my marriage pillow wife?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oliver sat huddled together, in a corner of the cart; bewildered with alarm and apprehension; and figuring strange objects in the gaunt trees, whose branches waved grimly to and fro, as if in some fantastic joy at the desolation of the scene.
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