deserted

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1 empty and quiet because no people are there 空寂无人的

The streets were deserted.

街上空无一人。

The old mine now stands completely deserted.

那座旧矿现在完全废弃了。

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2. deserted wife/husband/child etc a wife etc who has been left by her husband etc 被遗弃的妻子/丈夫/孩子等

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deserted wife/husband/child etc• In practice, the treatment of widows and deserted wives varied considerably from region to region.

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deserted• Thirty years later, the steel mill town stands completely deserted.• The beach was deserted and unsafe for bathing according to the guidebook.• Take care not to swim out too far, particularly on deserted beaches.• For a moment he hesitated, nervous of breaking the strange stillness of the deserted landscape.• On one side was a deserted lorry park.• It was only in such oblique ways that he referred to his state of deserted, now divorced, husband.• So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites.• a deserted street corner• Not a wet, cold, grey and grizzly day on a lonely and deserted stretch of coast at Birkenhead.• I wondered, driving round the utterly deserted town.• We passed through several deserted villages whose inhabitants had fled.

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