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：
-- 'I knew that you would never desert me,' she said, look-ing up with a momentary glow on her otherwise dejected countenance.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I wonder if I could write on a desert island, with the certainty that no eyes but mine would ever see what I had written."
-- Murea, the sister isle, comes into view in rocky splendour, rising from the desert sea mysteriously, like the unsubstantial fabric of a magic wand.
-- Above was the blue sky, and the stars, and all about the desert of the Pacific Ocean.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
-- Five days afterwards four of them were thrown on a desert coast, seven thousand miles from their country!But one of their number was missing, the man who was to be their guide, their leading spirit, the engineer, Captain Harding!The instant they had recovered their feet, they all hurried to the beach in the hopes of rendering him assistance.
-- But ought they to establish themselves on this part of the coast, without trying to know to what continent it belonged, if it was inhabited, or if they were on the shore of a desert island?
-- This desert coast appeared never to have been visited by a human creature.
-- He recounted all the events with which Cyrus was unacquainted, the last fall of the balloon, the landing on this unknown land, which appeared a desert (whatever it was, whether island or continent), the discovery of the Chimneys, the search for him, not forgetting of course Neb's devotion, the intelligence exhibited by the faithful Top, as well as many other matters.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do not desert me, now I have this chance.
-- An indistinct idea he had, that the child was desolate and in want of help; for he often drew her to his bosom and bade her be of good cheer, saying that they would not desert each other; but he seemed unable to contemplate their real position more distinctly, and was still the listless, passionless creature that suffering of mind and body had left him.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "A man who has been three years biting his nails on a desert island, Jim, can't expect to appear as sane as you or me.
-- A council was held, and it was decided that we must desert them on the island to the huge glee, I must say, of Ben Gunn, and with the strong approval of Gray.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Professor, I had set up my workshops upon a desert island in the ocean.
-- "If Captain Nemo does sometimes go on dry ground," said I, "he at least chooses desert islands."
-- The Nautilus skirted the shores of this desert island for a little distance.
-- During the expedition into Egypt, your General Bonaparte discovered traces of the works in the Desert of Suez; and, surprised by the tide, he nearly perished before regaining Hadjaroth, at the very place where Moses had encamped three thousand years before him."
-- For two days the desert and deep waters were visited by means of the inclined planes.
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：
-- 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.
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