1.[c][u]沙漠；荒漠；荒原a large area of land that has very little water and very few plants growing on it. Many deserts are covered by sand.
the Sahara Desert撒哈拉大沙漠
Somalia is mostly desert.索马里大部分地区都是荒漠。
burning desert sands沙漠里灼热的沙
a cultural desert(= a place without any culture)文化沙漠
1.[t]~ sb抛弃，离弃，遗弃（某人）to leave sb without help or support
She was deserted by her husband.她被丈夫遗弃了。
2.[t][oftpass]~ sth舍弃，离弃（某地方）to go away from a place and leave it empty
The villages had been deserted.这些村庄已经荒无人烟了。
The owl seems to have deserted its nest.这只猫头鹰似乎不要这个窝了。
3.[i][t]~ (sth)擅离（部队）；逃走；开小差to leave the armed forces without permission
Large numbers of soldiers deserted as defeat became inevitable.战败已成定局，许多士兵开小差跑了。
4.[t]~ sth (for sth)废弃；放弃；撇下不管to stop using, buying or supporting sth
Why did you desert teaching for politics?你为什么弃教从政呢？
5.[t]~ sb背离；使失望if a particular qualitydeserts you, it is not there when you need it
Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.她一时间似乎失去了勇气。
I began to glory in the thought of such a death, alone in the desert, with the wild eagles besieging my last moments.
我开始把这样的死――孤零零地死在荒野里，只有野鹰凭吊我最后的一刻――想象成光荣的牺牲。
As I was washing my feet, I let my mind wander. I felt as if I was on a vast desert.
我在洗脚，手脚依偎，恍惚间，我仿佛置身于广袤的大漠中。
Every year we plant trees to stop the desert. But the desert keeps advancing. We seem to be losing the fight.
每一年我们都种树来组织沙漠。但是沙漠仍然在扩大。我们看起来似乎是输了这场战斗
Back when it was written, though, it was sort of a voice in the desert.
不过当那本书刚出现的时候，却像是荒野中的一丝声音，应者寥寥。
I was directly behind our Tunisian guide when he began to adjust his turban for protection against the blazing Saharan desert sun.
当我们的突尼斯向导调整他的长头巾以遮挡撒哈拉沙漠的炽热阳光时，我正好躲在他的身后。
Sunset days, blue desert wind. One I think the name of the United States and the United States, but only with me with a despair.
落日天，风漠蓝。一个我认为美美的名字，却只能陪我一起绝望了。
What a glorious, all-satisfying country this Nevada desert would be, if one were only all eyes, and had no need of food, drink, and shelter!
如果这儿的人只用眼睛看而不需要吃喝和住宿，那内华达将会是个多么完美的地方啊。
All the people that came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the desert during the journey from Egypt had not.
因为出来的众民都受过割礼，惟独出埃及以后，在旷野的路上所生的众民都没有受过割礼。
The son in the desert. Oh, that's a thing far away. He was a really stubborn child. He never came back when he went away. We all miss him.
住在沙漠里的儿子，那是很久以前的事了。他可真是个犟孩子，走了以后再没回来过，我们都很想念他。
We sometimes imagine a desert island to be a sort of paradise where the sun always shines.
我们有时想像荒岛是阳光终日普照的天堂。
"If you want cute, go for stuff on the roof, " he said. "If you're interested in the problem, go for the [grids] in the desert. "
“如果你喜欢外形灵巧的东西，那就买个屋顶上用的太阳能装置，”他表示：“如果你喜欢麻烦，那就添置沙漠中用的那类网。”
The cheek is so dry, and the tear moves so slowly that you focus on it for a while, the tear traveling across the wide desert plain.
脸颊是那么的干，泪水流动是那么的慢，你盯着看了好久，眼泪在广阔的荒原上流淌。
The Great Wall run across the desert, over the mountains, through the valleys, just like a huge dragon.
长城就象一条巨龙穿过沙漠，穿过山脉，穿过山谷。
Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert.
你们的儿女必在旷野漂流四十年，担当你们淫行的罪，直到你们的尸首在旷野消灭。
By 1934, it had turned the Great Plains into a desert that came to be known as the Dust Bowl.
到了1934年时，旱灾将大平原（GreatPlains）变成沙漠，这个沙漠就是有名的尘暴干旱区（DustBowl）。
Remember, it was just a farm boy from a desert planet who ultimately destroyed the Death Star.
记住，最终摧毁死星的人只是一名来自沙漠星球的农场男孩。
The expansion of desert like conditions into areas where they did not previously exist is called desertification.
沙漠化是指沙漠式的环境扩张到先前没有该环境的地区。
When human friends desert us , good books are always ready to give us friendship, sympathy and encouragement.
当我们人类的朋友沙漠，好书总是愿意给我们的友谊，同情和鼓励。
Can not help the heart on the desert dry, wet it did not is no longer waiting for the results.
忍不住把心放在沙漠里烘干，不再湿润这没有结果的等候。
The layer of hot air above the sand then reflects the sky, and a traveler in the desert think he is looking at a cool oasis in the distance.
沙子上方的热空气层，于是照出天空的影像，而沙漠中的旅行者却认为他看到了远处的一片凉爽的绿洲。
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