英语词汇“desolation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

desolation

/dɛsəˈleɪʃ(ə)n

noun [mass noun]

1A state of complete emptiness or destruction: the stony desolation of the desert...

What once had been a city was a desert now, a vast field of emptiness and desolation.
It brought images of desolation and destruction that most people had never seen directly into their living rooms for the first time.
All around them desolation and destruction saturated the crumbled and falling buildings on each side of the street.

Synonyms

barrenness, bleakness, starkness, bareness, dismalness, grimness;

aridity, sterility;

wildness;

isolation, solitude, solitariness, loneliness, remoteness

2Great unhappiness or loneliness: in choked desolation, she watched him leave...

A solitary singer tramps through a winter landscape, seeing in the frozen streams and bare trees a reflection of his own loneliness and desolation.
The incidents that had occurred during the past few days only served to increase her sense of desolation and loneliness.
In fact, there's much a sense of desolation and loneliness permeating the film.

Synonyms

misery, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, gloom, gloominess, glumness, despondency, sorrow, depression, grief, mournfulness, woe;

broken-heartedness, heavy-heartedness, wretchedness, dejection, downheartedness, discouragement, devastation, despair, anguish, distress, low spirits

Origin

Late Middle English: from late Latin desolatio(n-), from Latin desolare 'to abandon' (see desolate).

单词	desolation
释义	desolation /dɛsəˈleɪʃ(ə)n / noun [mass noun] 1A state of complete emptiness or destruction: the stony desolation of the desert... What once had been a city was a desert now, a vast field of emptiness and desolation. It brought images of desolation and destruction that most people had never seen directly into their living rooms for the first time. All around them desolation and destruction saturated the crumbled and falling buildings on each side of the street. Synonyms barrenness, bleakness, starkness, bareness, dismalness, grimness; aridity, sterility; wildness; isolation, solitude, solitariness, loneliness, remoteness 2Great unhappiness or loneliness: in choked desolation, she watched him leave... A solitary singer tramps through a winter landscape, seeing in the frozen streams and bare trees a reflection of his own loneliness and desolation. The incidents that had occurred during the past few days only served to increase her sense of desolation and loneliness. In fact, there's much a sense of desolation and loneliness permeating the film. Synonyms misery, sadness, unhappiness, melancholy, gloom, gloominess, glumness, despondency, sorrow, depression, grief, mournfulness, woe; broken-heartedness, heavy-heartedness, wretchedness, dejection, downheartedness, discouragement, devastation, despair, anguish, distress, low spirits Origin Late Middle English: from late Latin desolatio(n-), from Latin desolare 'to abandon' (see desolate).
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