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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And they will see it again," returned Lord Glenarvan; "the statement is too explicit, and clear, and certain for England to hesitate about going to the aid of her three sons cast away on a desert coast.
-- The sudden transition from a desert to an oasis, from snowy peaks to verdant plains, from Winter to Summer, can not fail to strike the traveler's eye.
-- These might easily have been taken for sheets of ice, had not the intense heat forbidden the illusion; and the contrast these dazzling white sheets presented to the dry, burned-up ground gave the desert a most peculiar character.
-- Birds, quadrupeds, and reptiles were resting motionless after the fatigues of the day, and the silence of the desert brooded over the far-spreading Pampas.
-- "He is going to desert us," he exclaimed at last, as he saw him seize the reins, as if preparing to mount.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Every day we hoped that he was gone, but as long as he was there we could not desert him.
-- He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why could he not simply leave the monks alone, and go into the desert to repent?
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We should thus learn whether they will desert their city now that Hector has fallen, or will still hold out even though he is no longer living.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He ate and drank with an appetite that no sense of danger could disturb, but his vigi-lance seemed never to desert him.
-- In that moment of surprise, the self-possession of Heyward did not desert him.
-- 'The white man thinks none but cowards desert their women.'
-- A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I pray he may, and try to be all he believes me, for I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post.
-- On the contrary, it seemed, that mainly at Steelkilt's instigation, they had resolved to maintain the strictest peacefulness, obey all orders to the last, and, when the ship reached port, desert her in a body.
-- So that for an hour or more, a thousand fathoms in the sea, he carries a surplus stock of vitality in him, just as the camel crossing the waterless desert carries a surplus supply of drink for future use in its four supplementary stomachs.
-- "They tell me, sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin.
-- But I will never desert ye, sir, as Stubb did him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Away they fly, splashing through the mud, and rattling along the pavements: up go the windows, out run the people, onward bear the mob, a whole audience desert Punch in the very thickest of the plot, and, joining the rushing throng, swell the shout, and lend fresh vigour to the cry, 'Stop thief!Stop thief!'
-- Mr. Giles looked round with a patronising air, as much as to say that so long as they behaved properly, he would never desert them.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER III - WRECKED ON A DESERT ISLANDAFTER this stop, we made on to the southward continu-ally for ten or twelve days, living very sparingly on our provisions, which began to abate very much, and going no oftener to the shore than we were obliged to for fresh water.
-- When I was on the desperate expedition on the desert shores of Africa, I never had so much as one thought of what would become of me, or one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One of her order of mind would have been content to be cast away upon a desert island with a bundle of money, and only the long strain of starvation would have taught her that in some cases it could have no value.
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