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。
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the raw, half-lighted, covered-in vastness of the dark place, boarded and hollow underfoot, with only desolation everywhere.
-- They had coffee and rolls and honey in the vast desert refreshment room, so dreary, always so dreary, dirty, so spacious, such desolation of space.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
-- If there be any who have never known the blank that follows death the weary void the sense of desolation that will come upon the strongest minds, when something familiar and beloved is missed at every turn the connection between inanimate and senseless things, and the object of recollection, when every household god becomes a monument and every room a grave if there be any who have not known this, and proved it by their own experience, they can never faintly guess how, for many days, the old man pined and moped away the time, and wandered here and there as seeking something, and had no comfort.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the morning I would gather some provisions in the dingey, and after setting fire to the pyre before me, push out into the desolation of the high sea once more.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world.
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