| 释义 |
ghost townˈghost town noun [countable]   - I stayed in the one house left standing, a guest house in a ghost town of cracked jambs and gaping doorways.
- In a ghost town, silent and deserted as the Marie Celeste, I gave myself a history lesson.
place/area of land► empty a place that is empty has no-one in it: · It was 2 o'clock in the morning and the streets were completely empty. ► deserted a place that is deserted is empty and quiet because there is no one there, or the people who are usually there have left: · The beach was deserted and unsafe for bathing according to the guidebook.· We passed through several deserted villages whose inhabitants had fled. ► uninhabited an area or place that is uninhabited has no people living in it: · Most of the islands in Clear Bay are uninhabited.· Access to this remote uninhabited Himalayan mountain is via high snow-covered passes. ► desolate an area that is desolate is empty and sad-looking, because there are no people there, no trees or plants growing, and nothing attractive to see: · We looked out over a desolate landscape of bare trees and stony fields.· The little mining town was desolate and ugly.· the desolate terrain of the moon ► ghost town a town that is empty because all the people have left: become/turn into a ghost town: · Since the closing of the coal mines the place has become a ghost town.· By March the population had been evacuated, and Verdun had become a ghost town. ► wasteland an area of land, especially in a city, that is empty, ugly, and unused: · The area down by the docks is just a wasteland.· Detectives discovered the man's body dumped on wasteland near the railway. a town that used to have a lot of people living and working in it, but now has very few or none |