核心畫面

Picture a place or a person that people used to be with — and then those people walked away and did not come back. What is left behind is still there, but alone.

原本有人在的地方或身邊,那些人走掉了,而且沒有回來。留下來的東西還在原地——街道還在、房子還在、人還在——但周圍空了更多收起原本有人在的地方或身邊,那些人走掉了,而且沒有回來。留下來的東西還在原地——街道還在、房子還在、人還在——但周圍空了。這個字的重點不只是「沒有人」,而是「本來有人,人走了」:所以它帶著一種被留在原地的味道。一個從來沒人住過的荒島不太會用 deserted 來形容心情,但一條晚上十一點空掉的鬧區大街會,因為你知道白天它是滿的。

One branch

人走光之後留下的空

兩個用法走的是同一條路,差別只在被留下的是一個地方還是一個人。

empty of people · adjective · C1

Empty and quiet because no people are there, or because the people who used to be there have left.

空無一人

原始詞典資料3 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

desertedadj/dɪˈzɜː(ɹ)tɪd/

  • 1

    Abandoned, without people.

    • Ahead the flanks of the Pennines gleamed faintly in the moonlight, looking as though they themselves were part of some dry and deserted lunar landscape.
    • On arrival at Birmingham New Street, I make my way upstairs to the mezzanine to get shots of an almost deserted concourse, polka-dotted with social distancing circles like some strange board-game.
  • 2

    desolate

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。