1. Today it's pretty desolate, barren and extremely hot. 现今那里非常荒凉、土地贫瘠,而且极其炎热。
2. He lives in a great, big, desolate old house in the country and no one goes near him. 他住在乡下一幢又大又荒凉的的老房子里,没有人接近他。
3. When plants first made the transition ashore more than 400 million years ago, the land was barren and desolate, inhospitable to life. 4亿多年前,植物第一次向海岸上迁移时,陆地上荒凉而贫瘠,并非生命宜居之地。
4. In November 1677, Halley observed a transit of the innermost planet, Mercury, from the desolate island of St Helena in the South Pacific. 1677年11月,哈雷在南太平洋荒凉的圣赫勒拿岛上观测到了水星(最靠近太阳的行星)的凌日现象。