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
She was deserted by her husband.
她被丈夫遗弃了。
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。
Large numbers of soldiers deserted as defeat became inevitable.
战败已成定局，许多士兵开小差跑了。
Why did you desert teaching for politics?
你为什么弃教从政呢？
Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.
她一时间似乎失去了勇气。
1.沙漠；荒漠；荒原
1.抛弃；放弃；开小差；废弃
1.不毛的；沙漠的；无人的
1.a large area of land with few plants and little water and where the weather is always dry
2.a boring place where nothing happens or where everything is the same
1.to leave someone in a situation where they have no help or support; if people or animals desert a place, no one is left there
2.if people desert something such as a group or political party, they stop belonging to it
3.if soldiers desert, they leave the army without permission
4.if a feeling, quality, or skill deserts you, you suddenly do not have it any more
1.to leave someone in a situation where they have no help or support; if people or animals desert a place, no one is left there
2.if people desert something such as a group or political party, they stop belonging to it
3.if soldiers desert, they leave the army without permission
4.if a feeling, quality, or skill deserts you, you suddenly do not have it any more
1.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。
2.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。
3.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
4.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。
5.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。
6.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。
7.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。
8.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。
9.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。
10.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。