anarea, oftencoveredwithsandorrocks, where there is very littlerainand not manyplants:
沙漠，荒漠
They werelostinthe desert for ninedays.他们在沙漠里迷路已经有9天了。
We had tocrossalargeareaofarid,featurelessdesert.我们必须穿越一大片干燥荒芜的沙漠。
the desertsun沙漠里的太阳
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cultural, intellectual, etc. desertdisapproving
aplacethat isconsideredto have nocultural,intellectual, etc.qualityorinterest:
文化（知识等）沙漠
Thistownis aculturaldesert.这个城镇是一片文化沙漠。
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Theflatnessof the desert wasbrokenonly by a fewlargepilesofrocks.
She gave ahair-raisingaccountof herescapethrough the desert.
Livingroughin the deserthardenedtherecruitsa lot.
Theterroristsassumedcontrolof theplaneandforcedit tolandin the desert.
Atnight,adultscorpionsprowlthe desert forinsects.
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Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses
brush
bush
Bushman
dust bowl
grassland
heathland
marginal land
moor
moorland
mulga
pasture
plain
prairie
Sahara
the Gobi Desert
veld
virgin
wadi
wasteland
wilderness
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We use the before the names of rivers. We usually write the without a capital letter. If we use the word river, we usually write it without a capital letter: the river Thames, the river Severn, the Yangtze river.…
desert
verb
uk/dɪˈzɜːt/us/dɪˈzɝːt/
desertverb(RUN AWAY)
[IorT]
toleavethearmedforceswithoutpermissionand with nointentionofreturning:
开小差，当逃兵；擅离（部队）
Soldiers who deserted and werecaughtwereshot.抓回来的逃兵被枪毙了。
How manypeopledesertfromthearmyeachyear?每年军队有多少逃兵？
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Joining or leaving the army
anti-draft
buy
buysomeoneout
call
callsomeoneup
commission
conscript
conscription
demob
demobilization
deserter
desertion
draft
draft dodger
enlist
join
join up
re-enlist
re-enlistment
re-up
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Disloyalty, betrayal & treason
desertverb(LEAVE BEHIND)
[T]
toleavesomeone withouthelpor in adifficultsituationand not come back:
抛弃，丢弃
He deserted hiswifeandfamilyforanother woman.他为了另一个女人抛家弃子。
[T]
If aqualitydeserts you, yousuddenlyandtemporarilyloseit:
失去，丧失
All myconfidence/couragedeserted me when Iwalkedinto theexam.进入考场后，我的全部信心／勇气都丧失了。
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Departing
abandon
abandonment
absquatulate
backward
be ready to rollidiom
move
outgoing
p.o.q.
peel away/off
piss off
pull
pull out
pullsomethingoff
sea
strike
takesomethingoff
turfsomethingout
vacate
vamoose
walk
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Or possibly fortitude is primarily shaped by genetics, rather than early environment, but that is even less plausible as grounds for just deserts.
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He takes the side that thedesertbase must be one for which the individual is responsible.
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This is problematic to the extent that one thinks thatdesertnecessarily involves a ground for which the agent is morally responsible.
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But such organized resistance was rare, and once called up, few soldiers dodged conscription and even fewer deserted.
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Moreover, measuring the extent of a person'sdesertof punishment requires addressing difficult epistemological questions about excusing and mitigating circumstances.
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Determining whether the epistemological argument's assumptions aboutdesertare in fact correct would take us far afield.
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Ordinary citizens, as voters, woulddesertcentrist parties and transfer their allegiance to the extremes.
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Numerous farms and entire villages were deserted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and not one single market town was founded between 1350 and 1400.
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They sit on the least viable chunk ofdesertand scrub that exists.
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They are meant to reclaim place from thedesertof non-place and, in the process, serve as monuments against forgetting.
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Such accumulations are observed in certaindesertenvironments on earth.
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The second objection accepts the legitimacy of assessingdesertby interpersonal comparisons, but says that the pragmatic theory is inaccurate even on its own terms.
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The rule of law was taking hold in both the settled zone and thedesert.
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My paper, then, is based on archaeology in the sense that it comes from a study of extant deserted settlements and relic and current landscapes.
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The path has been deserted since the logging in the late 1960s and is now only occasionally used by researchers and visitors.
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barren desert
There is barren desert in the north, but rich in nitrate, copper and other minerals, and with a sea rich in fish.
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desert landscape
This ancient desert landscape and its biological communities have very little natural ability to recover from disturbance.
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desert shrub
The area is a desert shrub or pinyon-juniper woodland plant community.
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