Desolation

(n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.

(n.) The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess.

(n.) A place or country wasted and forsaken.

编辑:马里奥

• I had chosen night time for our journey to London, that the change and desolation of the country might be the less observable. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But it will be very dreadful, with this feeling of hunger, faintness, chill, and this sense of desolation--this total prostration of hope. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Where could we turn, and not find a desolation pregnant with the dire lesson of example? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The cold is excessive, and many of my unfortunate comrades have already found a grave amidst this scene of desolation. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• If, at that time, I had been much with her, I should, in the weakness of my desolation, have betrayed this. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• But I can never forgive the misery and desolation your madness has occasioned, continued Rowena. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Ruin and desolation! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• What wasteful desolation have we not suffered from the deluge of a sudden shower! 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Pitying his desolation, and watching him as he gradually settled down upon the pie, I made bold to say, I am glad you enjoy it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Isaac groaned deeply, and began to wring his hands, and to relapse into his state of desolation and despair. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• He was a nomad of the savage school, and he created an empire of desolation from North India to Syria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But when Mr. Bhaer came, Jo neglected her playfellows, and dismay and desolation fell upon their little souls. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was a world of ease, simplicity, and beauty; now it is a scene of desolation and misery. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• A sense of Cain-like desolation made my breast ache. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• How will she bear the shocks and repulses, the humiliations and desolations, which books, and my own reason, tell me are prepared for all flesh? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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