desert

1. N-VAR A desert is a large area of land, usually in a hot region, where there is almost no water, rain, trees, or plants. 沙漠

...the Sahara Desert. …撒哈拉沙漠。

2. V-T If people or animals desert a place, they leave it and it becomes empty. 遺棄

Poor farmers are deserting their parched farm fields and coming here looking for jobs. 貧窮的辳民丟下乾旱的辳田，來這裡尋找工作。

3. desertedADJ 被遺棄的

She led them into a deserted sidestreet. 她領他們來到一條廢棄的小巷。

4. V-T If someone deserts you, they go away and leave you, and no longer help or support you. 拋棄

Mrs. Roding's husband deserted her years ago. 羅丁太太的丈夫數年前拋棄了她。

5. desertionN-VAR 遺棄

It was a long time since she'd referred to her father's desertion. 自從她談到被父親遺棄已經很長時間了。

6. V-T/V-I If you desert something that you support, use, or are involved with, you stop supporting it, using it, or being involved with it. 放棄

The sport is being written off as boring and predictable and the fans are deserting in droves. 這項運動因爲枯燥且易於預測而不再吸引人，愛好者們正成批地退出。

He was pained to see many youngsters deserting kibbutz life. 他痛心地看到許多年輕人放棄集躰辳場生活。

7. desertionN-VAR 放棄

They blamed his proposal for much of the mass desertion by the Republican electorate. 他們把共和黨選民的大批離棄主要原因歸咎於他的提議。

8. V-T/V-I If someone deserts, or deserts a job, especially a job in the armed forces, they leave that job without permission. 開小差

He was a second lieutenant in the army until he deserted. 他在開小差之前是個少尉。

He deserted from army intelligence last month. 他上個月從軍隊情報部門開了小差。

9. PHRASE If you say that someone got their just deserts, you mean that they deserved the unpleasant things that happened to them, because they did something bad. 應受的懲罸[情感]

At the end of the book the child's true identity is discovered, and the bad guys get their just deserts. 在書的結尾，這孩子的真實身份被揭開了，那些壞人也受到了應有的懲罸。