desert

• vt. 遗弃；放弃；逃跑
• vi. 遗弃；开小差；逃掉
• n. 沙漠；荒原；应得的赏罚
• adj. 沙漠的；荒凉的；不毛的

de-, 不，非，使相反。-sert, 连接，词源同series, insert. 即断开连接，逃离，遗弃，引申词义被遗弃的地方，沙漠。

1. an arid region with little or no vegetation

desert

desert: English has three distinct words desert, which come from two separate sources. Desert ‘what one deserves’ [13] (now usually used in the plural) is related, as its meaning suggests, to the verb deserve. It comes from Old French desert or deserte, which were formed from the past participle of deservir ‘deserve’. (Dessert ‘sweet course’ [17] is its first cousin, coming from French desservir ‘clear the table’ – literally ‘unserve’ – a compound verb formed, like deserve, from the verb serve but with the prefix dis- rather than de-.) The noun desert ‘barren region’ [13] and the verb desert ‘abandon’ [15] both come ultimately from dēsertus, the past participle of Latin dēserere ‘abandon’.

This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dē- denoting reversal and serere ‘join’ (a derivative of which gave English ‘serried ranks’).
=> serve; serried

desert (v.)

"to leave one's duty," late 14c., from Old French deserter (12c.) "leave," literally "undo or sever connection," from Late Latin desertare, frequentative of Latin deserere "to abandon, to leave, forsake, give up, leave in the lurch," from de- "undo" (see de-) + serere "join together, put in a row" (see series). Military sense is first recorded 1640s. Related: Deserted; deserting.

desert (n.1)

"wasteland," early 13c., from Old French desert (12c.) "desert, wilderness, wasteland; destruction, ruin," from Late Latin desertum (source of Italian diserto, Old Provençal dezert, Spanish desierto), literally "thing abandoned" (used in Vulgate to translate "wilderness"), noun use of neuter past participle of Latin deserere "forsake" (see desert (v.)).

Sense of "waterless, treeless region" was in Middle English and gradually became the main meaning. Commonly spelled desart in 18c., which is not etymological but at least avoids confusion with the other two senses of the word. Classical Latin indicated this idea with deserta, plural of desertus.

desert (n.2)

"suitable reward or punishment" (now usually plural and with just), c. 1300, from Old French deserte, noun use of past participle of deservir "be worthy to have," ultimately from Latin deservire "serve well" (see deserve).

abandon, desert, forsake, leave, give up

这些动词或词组均含"抛弃，放弃"之意

abandon：强调永远或完全放弃或抛弃人或事物等，这可能是被迫的，也可能是自愿的。

desert：着重指违背法律责任和义务，或自己的信仰与誓言的行为，多含非难的意味。

forsake：侧重断绝感情上的依恋，自愿抛弃所喜欢的人或物。也指抛弃信仰或改掉恶习。

leave：普通用词，指舍弃某事或某一职业，或终止同一某人的关系，但不涉及动机与果。

give up：普通用语，侧重指没有希望或因外界压力而放弃。

They are deserted by their family.

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Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

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Hospital workers in at least one case deserted their workplace in panic, thus halting the administering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections, but Ebola has not disappeared.

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Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert: gravel (砾石), stones and rocks.

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During the war, my husband was stationed at an army camp in a desert in California.

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Is this snack bar always this deserted?

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They must show each other kindness and pity and the many qualities without which life would be very painful unless one chose to live alone in the desert.

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The villages had been deserted.

这些村庄已经荒无人烟了。

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The owl seems to have deserted its nest.

这只猫头鹰似乎不要这个窝了。

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Large numbers of soldiers deserted as defeat became inevitable.

战败已成定局，许多士兵开小差跑了。

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Why did you desert teaching for politics?

你为什么弃教从政呢？

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Her courage seemed to desert her for a moment.

她一时间似乎失去了勇气。

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[不可数名词, 可数名词]She felt betrayed by her husband's desertion.

她感到丈夫遗弃她辜负了她的心。

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The army was badly affected by desertions.

开小差使部队大受影响。

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She was deserted by her husband.

她被丈夫遗弃了。

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(figurative)a cultural desert (= a place without any culture)

文化沙漠

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burning desert sands

沙漠里灼热的沙

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Somalia is mostly desert.

索马里大部分地区都是荒漠。

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the Sahara Desert

撒哈拉大沙漠

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At the end of the book the child's true identity is discovered, and the bad guys get their just deserts.

在书的结尾，那个孩子的真实身份大白于世，坏人则得到了应有的惩罚。

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He deserted from army intelligence last month...

上个月他从陆军情报机关开小差跑了。

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He was a second-lieutenant in the army until he deserted...

他在擅离部队之前是一名陆军少尉。

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She lost the next five games, and the set, as her confidence abruptly deserted her.

她突然自信心全失，接下来连败 5 局，并最终丢了这一盘。

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Even when he appeared to be depressed, a dry sense of humour never deserted him...

即使在他看上去很沮丧的时候，他也从没有丧失过自己的冷面幽默。

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He was pained to see many youngsters deserting kibbutz life...

看到那么多的年轻人放弃了合作农场的生活，他感到很痛心。

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The paper's price rise will encourage readers to desert in even greater numbers...

报纸价格的上涨将导致更多的读者不再订阅。

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He has been deserted by most of his advisers.

他的大多数顾问都弃他而去。

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Mrs Roding's husband deserted her years ago...

罗丁太太的丈夫数年前抛弃了她。

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After the show, the audience deserts the Blackpool streets.

演出结束后，观众从布莱克浦的大街上消失了踪迹。

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Farmers are deserting their fields and coming here looking for jobs...

小农场主正舍弃他们的土地，到这里来寻找工作。

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Pubs are a cultural desert.

酒馆是文化沙漠。

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They live in 12 high-rise apartment buildings that sit in a desert of concrete...

他们居住的地方是坐落于一片钢筋水泥丛林中的12栋高层公寓楼。

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...the Sahara Desert.

撒哈拉大沙漠

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...the burning desert sun...

沙漠中火辣辣的太阳

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