desert的意思|desert的解释-里氏词典

desert ['dezәt, di'sә:t]

n. 沙漠, 应得的赏罚, 功劳

a. 沙漠的, 不毛的

vt. 放弃, 遗弃, 擅离

vi. 逃掉

The baby's mother deserted him soon after giving birth.
那个母亲生下他后不久就把他遗弃了。
The writer decided to live in the Sahara Desert for some time.
那位作家决定去撒哈拉沙漠住一段日子。
The guard deserted his post.
卫兵擅自离开了他的岗位。

desert

[ noun ]

arid land with little or no vegetation

<noun.location>

[ verb ]

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

<verb.cognition>

abandon

desolate

forsake

The mother deserted her children

desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

<verb.social>

defect

If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot

leave behind

<verb.motion>
the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period

Desert \De*sert"\ (d[-e]*z[~e]rt"), n. [OF. deserte, desserte,
merit, recompense, fr. deservir, desservir, to merit. See
{Deserve}.]
That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly
due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to
reward; merit.

According to their deserts will I judge them. --Ezek.
vii. 27.

Andronicus, surnamed Pius
For many good and great deserts to Rome. --Shak.

His reputation falls far below his desert. --A.
Hamilton.

Syn: Merit; worth; excellence; due.

Desert \Des"ert\ (d[e^]z"[~e]rt), n. [F. d['e]sert, L. desertum,
from desertus solitary, desert, pp. of deserere to desert;
de- + serere to join together. See {Series}.]
1. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of
supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and
Africa which are destitute of moisture and vegetation.

A dreary desert and a gloomy waste. --Pope.

2. A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population,
but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a
wilderness; a solitary place.

He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her
desert like the garden of the Lord. --Is. li. 3.

Note: Also figuratively.

Before her extended
Dreary and vast and silent, the desert of life.
--Longfellow.

Desert \Des"ert\, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F.
d['e]sert. See 2d {Desert}.]
Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or
cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate;
solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.

He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.
--Luke ix. 10.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.

{Desert flora} (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing
naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently
unproductive place.

{Desert hare} (Zo["o]l.), a small hare ({Lepus sylvaticus},
var. Arizon[ae]) inhabiting the deserts of the Western
United States.

{Desert mouse} (Zo["o]l.), an American mouse ({Hesperomys
eremicus}), living in the Western deserts.

Desert \De*sert"\, v. i.
To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service
without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to
abscond.

The soldiers . . . deserted in numbers. --Bancroft.

Syn: To abandon; forsake; leave; relinquish; renounce; quit;
depart from; abdicate. See {Abandon}.

Desert \De*sert"\ (d[-e]*z[~e]rt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Deserted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Deserting}.] [Cf. L. desertus,
p. p. of deserere to desert, F. d['e]serter. See 2d
{Desert}.]
1. To leave (especially something which one should stay by
and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to
forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of
localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause,
one's country. ``The deserted fortress.'' --Prescott.

2. (Mil.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake
in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the
army; to desert one's colors.

An explosion destroyed a French UTA jetliner over the Niger desert last September, killing 171 people.
Temperatures warmed into the 60s, 70s and 80s across the desert Southwest.
In a Persian Gulf battle, troops wouldn't have to worry about running their tanks over threatened desert tortoises.
Discovery returned home today, landing safely on a desert lakebed, after a virtually flawless mission that sent a sun probe hurtling through space and lifted morale at NASA.
Economic life is far more complicated than suggested by the myths of economic nationalists. Nor can a people can be mobilised for economic war, as American troops were mobilised for the desert.
After 30 years of grace the locusts are back, cutting a swath from the desert to the rich agricultural lands of North Africa and, possibly, beyond.
The desert town bloomed with cricket fields and English gardens.
It is discipline in the equality of men _ for all men are equal before fish." From the flat high desert of western Wyoming a traveler looks far back over his shoulder to see distant white clouds high in the northeastern sky.
U.S. citizens who want to escape from Kuwait by crossing the desert receive daily words of caution by radio from the State Department.
Two sonic booms crackled over the desert as Atlantis swooped powerless through the clear sky, making wide circles as it descended.
She and other foreigners decided to take their chances in the desert rather than risk becoming hostages in Baghdad.
The train was supposed to go to Fort Worth but was held back at Sierra Blanca, 90 miles east of El Paso, sitting on a siding for about 14 hours under the desert sun.
High temperatures across southern Texas will be in the mid to upper 70s; in the 90s for the lower two-thirds of the Florida peninsula and from northeast and southwest Texas; and near 105 in the desert Southwest.
The board initially voted in June to halt the project in Israel's Arava desert for a two-year ecological study of bird migrations, which environmentalists said could be disturbed by the transmitter.
April 25 _ A U.S. military force flies to a remote Iranian desert in hopes of rescuing the hostages, but the attempt is aborted when three helicopters fail.
In its 38 years, The Nature Conservancy has saved threatened lands ranging from 343 square miles of rare New Mexican desert grassland to a heron feeding ground on nine-tenths of an acre of Connecticut marsh.
It also found that 60 percent supported the Immigration and Naturalization Service's plan to build a four-mile drainage ditch in a desert area of San Diego County to stop motorists from speeding across unpatrolled border areas.
The Rub al-Khali, or Empty Quarter, is the world's largest sand desert.
Several Samaritan homes in Nablus were burned last fall during the Jewish and Samaritan holiday of Sukkot, which commemorates the desert wandering of the Israelites during the Exodus.
While the desert is ideal for employing sophisticated airborne weapons, the terrain could work to the disadvantage of a high-tech attacking force.
This picture was painted in Arizona, in the little house she and Max Ernst built on top of a hill in Sedona, where they lived surrounded by vistas of desert and sky.
He has captured the pathos of Holocaust survivors on canvas, the panorama of tent encampments of nomadic Bedouin tries and the desert fortress of Masada.
It ascribed the incident to the spirit of Polisario's desert patrols, who it said were "daily attacked by Moroccan aircraft." There was no immediate reaction to the statement from Moroccan authorities.
He was identified only as a resident of the Negev desert town of Ofakim.
The veiled women, most of them middle-aged and married, startled this desert kingdom Tuesday by taking the steering wheels in the first open protest by women here.
Wrangler's pants have more shades of tan than the military's previous pattern, which was designed for the California desert and had black and white specks.
Mauritania is a desert country, and with the Senegal River dams in operation the government is giving land to any individual or company willing to develop it.
The humiliating removal from power of Kuwait's royal family has raised questions about how long other longtime rulers can survive in desert kingdoms carved out by the swords of their Bedouin ancestors.
Outdoor sports are out of the question on the desolate ice desert that stretches more than 300 miles from here to the south. Even for those hardy enough to play outdoors, it's hard to see a soccer ball during the three-month polar night.
There's a new gold rush in the California desert, powered by 1980s technology for coaxing gold out of low-grade ore, but miners are worried that plans for a national park could someday end the boom.

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