Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
例句
Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.科澤萊克不帶一絲顧影自憐地表達了自己的凄涼悲愴之感。
N-UNCOUNT
荒涼;荒蕪;荒廢;滿目瘡痍
If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army.
例句
We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin...我們放眼望去，眼前是一片荒涼的廢墟。She says the army left desolation and death through the whole of northern Morazan.她說軍隊在整個莫拉桑省北部留下了滿目瘡痍和遍野橫尸。
英漢詞典釋義
n.
遺棄;荒涼;破壞
He found the old house in complete desolation.他發現那間舊房子十分荒涼。
英英詞典釋義
Noun
1. the state of being decayed or destroyed
2. a bleak and desolate atmosphere
3. sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned