desert 音标拼音: [d'ɛzɚt] [dɪz'ɚt]
n . 沙漠,不毛之地;功过,功罪,应得的赏
a . 沙漠的,荒无人烟的
v .
vi . 逃跑掉
沙漠,不毛之地;功过,功罪,应得的赏沙漠的,荒无人烟的逃跑掉
desert n 1 :
arid land with little or no vegetation v 1 :
leave someone who needs or counts on you ;
leave in the lurch ; "
The mother deserted her children " [
synonym : {
abandon },
{
forsake }, {
desolate }, {
desert }]
2 :
desert (
a cause ,
a country or an army ),
often in order to join the opposing cause ,
country ,
or army ; "
If soldiers deserted Hitler '
s army ,
they were shot " [
synonym : {
defect },
{
desert }]
3 :
leave behind ; "
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 .
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According to their deserts will I judge them . --
Ezek .
vii .
27 .
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Andronicus ,
surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome . --
Shak .
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His reputation falls far below his desert . --
A .
Hamilton .
Syn :
Merit ;
worth ;
excellence ;
due .
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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 .
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A dreary desert and a gloomy waste . --
Pope .
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2 .
A tract ,
which may be capable of sustaining a population ,
but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated ;
a wilderness ;
a solitary place .
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He will make her wilderness like Eden ,
and her desert like the garden of the Lord . --
Is .
li .
3 .
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Note :
Also figuratively .
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Before her extended Dreary and vast and silent ,
the desert of life .
--
Longfellow .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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He . . .
went aside privately into a desert place .
--
Luke ix .
10 .
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen ,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air . --
Gray .
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{
Desert flora } (
Bot .),
the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert ,
or in a dry and apparently unproductive place .
{
Desert hare } (
Zool .),
a small hare ({
Lepus sylvaticus },
var .
Arizon [
ae ])
inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States .
{
Desert mouse } (
Zool .),
an American mouse ({
Hesperomys eremicus }),
living in the Western deserts .
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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 .
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The soldiers . . .
deserted in numbers . --
Bancroft .
Syn :
To abandon ;
forsake ;
leave ;
relinquish ;
renounce ;
quit ;
depart from ;
abdicate .
See {
Abandon }.
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292 Moby Thesaurus words for "
desert ":
Arabia Deserta ,
Death Valley ,
Lebensraum ,
Sahara ,
Saharan ,
abandon ,
abscond ,
absquatulate ,
acarpous ,
advantageousness ,
agreeableness ,
air space ,
alkali flat ,
alluvial plain ,
anhydrous ,
apostacize ,
apostatize ,
arid ,
athirst ,
auspiciousness ,
back country ,
bare ,
barren ,
barren land ,
barrens ,
basin ,
be unfaithful ,
beat a retreat ,
beneficialness ,
benevolence ,
benignity ,
betray ,
bolt ,
bone -
dry ,
bottomland ,
break away ,
break faith ,
brush ,
bush ,
bushveld ,
campo ,
celibate ,
champaign ,
champaign country ,
change sides ,
chastening ,
chastisement ,
childless ,
chuck ,
class ,
clear out ,
clear space ,
clearance ,
clearing ,
coastal plain ,
cogency ,
comeuppance ,
compensation ,
cut and run ,
decamp ,
defect ,
degenerate ,
delta ,
depart ,
deserted ,
deserts ,
deserving ,
desolate ,
desolation ,
discipline ,
distant prospect ,
down ,
downs ,
drained ,
dried -
up ,
droughty ,
dry ,
dry as dust ,
due ,
dust bowl ,
dusty ,
elope ,
empty ,
empty view ,
escape ,
excellence ,
exhausted ,
expedience ,
fail ,
fairness ,
fall away ,
fall off ,
fallow ,
favorableness ,
fell ,
fineness ,
first -
rateness ,
flat ,
flat country ,
flatland ,
flats ,
flee ,
fly ,
forsake ,
fruitless ,
fugitate ,
gaunt ,
gelded ,
glade ,
go ,
go AWOL ,
go back on ,
go over ,
goodliness ,
goodness ,
grace ,
grass veld ,
grassland ,
healthiness ,
heath ,
helpfulness ,
high and dry ,
howling wilderness ,
impotent ,
ineffectual ,
infecund ,
infertile ,
issueless ,
jejune ,
jilt ,
juiceless ,
jump ,
jump bail ,
just deserts ,
justice ,
karroo ,
kindness ,
lande ,
leached ,
leave ,
let down ,
levant ,
level ,
like parchment ,
living space ,
llano ,
lonely ,
lowland ,
lowlands ,
lunar landscape ,
lunar mare ,
lunar waste ,
make off ,
mare ,
maroon ,
menopausal ,
merit ,
mesa ,
mesilla ,
moor ,
moorland ,
niceness ,
nonfertile ,
nonproducing ,
nonproductive ,
nonprolific ,
open country ,
open space ,
outback ,
pampa ,
pampas ,
pass the buck ,
payment ,
peneplain ,
plain ,
plains ,
plateau ,
playa ,
pleasantness ,
prairie ,
profitableness ,
pull out ,
punishment ,
quality ,
quit ,
quittance ,
rat ,
recompense ,
renegade ,
renege ,
renounce ,
reprisal ,
repudiate ,
requital ,
retribution ,
revenge ,
reward ,
rewardingness ,
right ,
rights ,
run ,
run away ,
run away from ,
run away with ,
run for it ,
run off ,
run out on ,
salt flat ,
salt marsh ,
salt pan ,
sandy ,
sapless ,
savanna ,
sebkha ,
secede ,
sell out ,
shift the blame ,
shift the responsibility ,
show the heels ,
sine prole ,
skedaddle ,
skillfulness ,
skip ,
skip out ,
slip the cable ,
soundness ,
steppe ,
sterile ,
strand ,
sucked dry ,
superiority ,
switch ,
switch over ,
table ,
tableland ,
take French leave ,
take flight ,
take to flight ,
take wing ,
teemless ,
tergiversate ,
terrain ,
territory ,
thirsting ,
thirsty ,
throw over ,
tree veld ,
tundra ,
turn ,
turn against ,
turn cloak ,
turn tail ,
turn traitor ,
uncultivated ,
undamped ,
unfertile ,
unfruitful ,
uninhabited ,
unpeopled ,
unplowed ,
unproductive ,
unprolific ,
unsown ,
untilled ,
unwatered ,
upland ,
usefulness ,
vacant ,
validity ,
value ,
vega ,
veld ,
virgin ,
virtue ,
virtuousness ,
waste ,
wasted ,
wasteland ,
waterless ,
weald ,
weary waste ,
what is due ,
what is merited ,
wholeness ,
wide -
open spaces ,
wild ,
wilderness ,
wildness ,
wilds ,
without issue ,
wold ,
worth Desert (
1 .)
Heb .
midbar , "
pasture -
ground ;"
an open tract for pasturage ;
a common (
Joel 2 :
22 ).
The "
backside of the desert " (
Ex .
3 :
1 )
is the west of the desert ,
the region behind a man ,
as the east is the region in front .
The same Hebrew word is rendered "
wildernes ,"
and is used of the country lying between Egypt and Palestine (
Gen .
21 :
14 ,
21 ;
Ex .
4 :
27 ;
19 :
2 ;
Josh .
1 :
4 ),
the wilderness of the wanderings .
It was a grazing tract ,
where the flocks and herds of the Israelites found pasturage during the whole of their journey to the Promised Land .
The same Hebrew word is used also to denote the wilderness of Arabia ,
which in winter and early spring supplies good pasturage to the flocks of the nomad tribes than roam over it (
1 Kings 9 :
18 ).
The wilderness of Judah is the mountainous region along the western shore of the Dead Sea ,
where David fed his father '
s flocks (
1 Sam .
17 :
28 ;
26 :
2 ).
Thus in both of these instances the word denotes a country without settled inhabitants and without streams of water ,
but having good pasturage for cattle ;
a country of wandering tribes ,
as distinguished from that of a settled people (
Isa .
35 :
1 ;
50 :
2 ;
Jer .
4 :
11 ).
Such ,
also ,
is the meaning of the word "
wilderness "
in Matt .
3 :
3 ;
15 :
33 ;
Luke 15 :
4 .
(
2 .)
The translation of the Hebrew _Aribah '
_ , "
an arid tract "
(
Isa .
35 :
1 ,
6 ;
40 :
3 ;
41 :
19 ;
51 :
3 ,
etc .).
The name Arabah is specially applied to the deep valley of the Jordan (
the Ghor of the Arabs ),
which extends from the lake of Tiberias to the Elanitic gulf .
While _midbar_ denotes properly a pastoral region ,
_arabah_ denotes a wilderness .
It is also translated "
plains ;"
as "
the plains of Jericho " (
Josh .
5 :
10 ;
2 Kings 25 :
5 ),
"
the plains of Moab " (
Num .
22 :
1 ;
Deut .
34 :
1 ,
8 ), "
the plains of the wilderness " (
2 Sam .
17 :
16 ).
(
3 .)
In the Revised Version of Num .
21 :
20 the Hebrew word _jeshimon_ is properly rendered "
desert ,"
meaning the waste tracts on both shores of the Dead Sea .
This word is also rendered "
desert "
in Ps .
78 :
40 ;
106 :
14 ;
Isa .
43 :
19 ,
20 .
It denotes a greater extent of uncultivated country than the other words so rendered .
It is especially applied to the desert of the peninsula of Arabia (
Num .
21 :
20 ;
23 :
28 ),
the most terrible of all the deserts with which the Israelites were acquainted .
It is called "
the desert "
in Ex .
23 :
31 ;
Deut .
11 :
24 . (
See {
JESHIMON }.)
(
4 .)
A dry place ;
hence a desolation (
Ps .
9 :
6 ),
desolate (
Lev .
26 :
34 );
the rendering of the Hebrew word _horbah '
_ .
It is rendered "
desert "
only in Ps .
102 :
6 ,
Isa .
48 :
21 ,
and Ezek .
13 :
4 ,
where it means the wilderness of Sinai .
(
5 .)
This word is the symbol of the Jewish church when they had forsaken God (
Isa .
40 :
3 ).
Nations destitute of the knowledge of God are called a "
wilderness " (
32 :
15 ,
_midbar_ ).
It is a symbol of temptation ,
solitude ,
and persecution (
Isa .
27 :
10 ,
_midbar_ ;
33 :
9 ,
_arabah_ ).
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