詞彙精選：desolate的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
adj.
無人居住的；荒無人煙的；荒涼的
例句：
The town has a desolate visage.
這個鎮子呈現出一片荒涼。
例句：
It was sparsely wooded and desolate.
這裏樹木稀少，荒無人煙。
孤獨淒涼的
例句：
I felt so desolate and so angry.
我感到異常孤憤。
例句：
He has been desolate since his wife died.
自從妻子去世後， 他一直很孤獨。
v.
使荒蕪；使孤寂；使失望 [T]
例句：
His low grade had desolated his parents many times.
他不佳的成績已不止一次讓父母失望。
例句：
The land was desolated by floods.
洪水使田野荒蕪。
二、詞義辨析：
lonely,laone,desolate,lone,solitary
這些形容詞均有“孤單的，寂寞的”之意。lonely強調孤獨感，含“渴望和他人在一起”的意味。alone普通用詞，指獨自一人的狀態，有時含孤寂之意。desolate語氣強烈，強調遭受損失和失去親人所帶來的難以忍受的痛苦。lone較文雅，可與lonely換用。solitary可指因被遺忘或遺棄而產生的孤獨感，也可指人的生性孤僻。
三、參考例句：
The town has a desolate visage.
這個鎮子呈現出一片荒涼。
I felt so desolate and so angry.
我感到異常孤憤。
He has been desolate since his wife died.
自從妻子去世後， 他一直很孤獨。
We saw few houses in the desolate valley.
在這荒涼的山谷裏，我們很少見到房子。
After the war the village was a desolate place.
那個村莊在戰後成爲荒涼之地。
The vast drums from slow beats indicating the sense of grand immenseness and desolate loneliness.
壯麗的鼓聲，緩緩的擊打着，描述出雄偉遼闊且孤寂的感覺。
The center of the Negev is an especially desolate and achromatic place.
內蓋夫地區的中部是特別荒涼和消色差的地方。
Over all the desolate place there hung a still and awful calm.
這整個偏僻的地方籠罩着一種可怕的寂靜。
Let's seek out some desolate shade, and there weep our sad bosoms empty.
我們尋個僻靜的地方，去痛哭一場吧。
(Applause.) And this square itself, once a desolate no man's land, is now open to all.
（掌聲）而這個廣場本身，一度淪爲無人之地，如今面向所人敞開。
