Desert

(noun.) arid land with little or no vegetation.

(verb.) leave behind; 'the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period'.

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• There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Why were we ever told to bring navy revolvers with us if we had to be protected at last by this infamous star-spangled scum of the desert? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• After the destruction of Palmyra, the desert Arabs began to be spoken of in the Roman and Persian records as Saracens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The centre of gravity of Islam shifted across the desert from Damascus to Mesopotamia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Or perhaps this IS the Desert of Sahara! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• In my youth young men didn't desert pretty women unless they were made to! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I suppose the Academy was bacon and beans in the Forty-Mile Desert, and a European gallery is a state dinner of thirteen courses. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The wanderings led to the old ore-milling plant at Edison, now practically a mass of deserted buildings all going to decay. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The only person I know who exactly answers your description, and for whom as a poor deserted orphan it would be a charity to provide, is in Paris. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• A wild, long laugh rang through the deserted room, and ended in a hysteric sob; she threw herself on the floor, in convulsive sobbing and struggles. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But no, sir, no; I doen't mean as it should be deserted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I, who never have deserted you; who never WILL desert you, Micawber! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The house seems deserted. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• They went out by another staircase, avoiding the lodge; and coming into the front court-yard, now all quiet and deserted, gained the street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The higher his deserts, the more improper for me ever to have thought of him. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• Thus vanquished and restricted, she pined, like any other chained denizen of deserts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The lawless Bedouins in the Valley of the Jordan and the deserts down by the Dead Sea were up in arms, and were going to destroy all comers. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He only laughed, and told me the boy had got his deserts. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• You have only got your deserts. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• But he'll cry himself sick, pleaded Meg, reproaching herself for deserting her boy. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• At first, such a baby could do little more than sit with him, deserting her livelier place by the high fender, and quietly watching him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He knows not how to answer them, although he is afraid of deserting justice in the hour of need. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Return to the drawing-room: you are deserting too early. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss Sutherland? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• It's not deserting from the army. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Or is it entire in any one part without deserting the rest? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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