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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Good God!In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?
-- The desert moun-tains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.
-- It surprised me that what before was desert and gloomy should now bloom with the most beau-tiful flowers and verdure.
-- Do not you desert me in the hour of trial!'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried Scarlett "Why didn't he take the oath and then desert and come home as soon as hegot out of jail?"
-- Don't desert me, darling.
-- To desert us here, alone, helpless " "Dear Scarlett!You aren't helpless.
-- She could not desert Tara; she belonged to the red acres far morethan they could ever belong to her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The resolution I had made did not desert me, for, without uttering one vain word of appeal to him, I shouted out with all my might, and struggled with all my might.
-- I pressed his hand in silence, for I could not forget that I had once meant to desert him.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she was so pitiless that she took poor Rapunzel into a desert where she had to live in great grief and misery.
-- Thus he roamed about in misery for some years, and at length came to the desert where Rapun-zel, with the twins to which she had given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in wretchedness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Fire and steam, and smoke, and red light; a hiss, a crash, a bell, and a shriek; Louisa put into one carriage, Mrs. Sparsit put into another: the little station a desert speck in the thunderstorm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It resembled the fearful phenomenon of a similar character known to the travelers in the desert of the great Sahara.
-- During certain periods there was an utter cessation of wind, when a silence deeper, more terr ible than the silence of the desert fell upon these solitary and arid rocks--and seemed to hang like a leaden weight upon the waters of this singular ocean.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the strange, bald desert of this still-one-more no-man's-land, new little streets of semi-detacheds were run up, very desirable!The Shipley Hall Estate!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- and then told the mother that he thanked her, and that Affery thanked her, and that he would never desert her, and that Affery would never desert her.
-- It was inhabited by poor people, who set up their rest among its faded glories, as Arabs of the desert pitch their tents among the fallen stones of the Pyramids; but there was a family sentimental feeling prevalent in the Yard, that it had a character.
-- That wealth had been, in his desert home, like Robinson Crusoe's money; exchangeable with no one, lying idle in the dark to rust, until he poured it out for her.
-- The house, on a little desert island, looked as if it had broken away from somewhere else, and had floated by chance into its present anchorage in company with a vine almost as much in want of training as the poor wretches who were lying under its leaves.
-- 'O!you will never say to me,' she cried, weeping bitterly, and holding up her clasped hands in entreaty, 'that I am not to come back any more!You will surely not desert me so!'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'll do anything if you'll let me stop a bit, for it's as dull as the Desert of Sahara down there.
-- Just be a simple, honest, respectable boy, and we'll never desert you.
-- 'Come, Jo, don't desert a fellow.
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