desert是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 丢弃, 离开, 背弃, 开小差; n. /a. 沙漠, 无人居住的，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Waste forces within him, and a desert all around, this man stood still on his way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him, a mirage of honourable ambition, self-denial, and perseverance.
-- But, easy and strong custom, unhappily so much easier and stronger in him than any stimulating sense of desert or disgrace, made it the life he was to lead; and he no more thought of emerging from his state of lion's jackal, than any real jackal may be supposed to think of rising to be a lion.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All I can want is that you should not desert me, as you think of doing," she said, understanding all he had not uttered.
-- Don't I know that he wouldn't deceive me, that he has no schemes about Princess Sorokina, that he's not in love with Kitty, that he won't desert me!I know all that, but it makes it no better for me.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a desert in its vast nakedness.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In summer Leora and he drove to the Pony River for picnic suppers and a swim, very noisy, splashing, and immodest; through autumn he went duck-hunting with Bert Tozer, who became nearly tolerable when he stood at sunset on a pass between two slews; and with winter isolating the village in a sun-blank desert of snow, they had sleigh-rides, card-parties, "sociables" at the churches.
-- He reviewed the "intelligent conversation" which, in the desert of Wheatsylvania, he believed himself to have conducted at Mohalis.
-- Martin was half minded to desert with them, and he went in sulkily.
-- He pictured the saturnine Gottlieb not at all enjoying the triumph but, with locked door, abusing the papers for their exaggerative reports of his work; and as the picture became sharp Martin was like a subaltern stationed in a desert isle when he learns that his old regiment is going off to an agreeable Border war.
-- I really do like you, you know!I don't want you to desert me, and you would if you went off to this horrid Vermont place."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Zossimov had agreed at once to desert the drinking party to go to Raskolnikov's, but he came reluctantly and with the greatest suspicion to see the ladies, mistrusting Razu-mihin in his exhilarated condition.
-- And in the fourth or fifth century she would have walked away into the Egyptian desert and would have stayed there thirty years living on roots and ecstasies and visions.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Creakle's part of the house was a good deal more comfortablethan ours, and he had a snug bit of garden that looked pleasantafter the dusty playground, which was such a desert in miniature,that I thought no one but a camel, or a dromedary, could have feltat home in it.
-- The events of the day, in combination with the twins, if not with the flip, had made Mrs. Micawber hysterical, and she shed tears as she replied'I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
-- But I never will desert Mr. Micawber.
-- she went on, looking at the wall; 'but I never will desert Mr.
-- 'I never will desert you, Micawber!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such talent as hers must not be suf-fered to remain unknown. I dare say you have heard those charming lines of the poet, 'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 'And waste its fragrance on the desert air.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A meditation on the obvious inference was indulged in by all, and during its continuance each directed his vision into the ashpit, which glowed like a desert in the tropics under a vertical sun, shaping their eyes long and liny, partly because of the light, partly from the depth of the subject discussed.
-- She held it at a distance, was about to fold it, then added these words at the bottom: "Do not desert me, Gabriel!"
-- "Troy," said Boldwood, imploringly, "I'll do anything for you, only don't desert her; pray don't desert her, Troy."
-- "It shows you didn't care a bit about me, and were ready to desert me like all the rest of them!It was very cruel of you, considering I was the first sweetheart that you ever had, and you were the first I ever had; and I shall not forget it!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her.
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