deserts是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)receive one's just deserts得到应有的回报

(2)get one's just deserts得到应有的回报

双语例句

(1)The sun shone down on deserts.

太阳照射在沙漠上。

(2)I live in dry areas like deserts.

我住在像沙漠一样干燥的地方。

(3)Deserts were tidy because there were no weeds in them, nothing that crawled.

沙漠很整洁，因为里面没有杂草，没有爬行的东西。

(4)Their remains, though lying in one of the world's largest deserts, are buried in upside-down boats.

他们的遗体虽然躺在世界上最大的沙漠之一，却被埋在乱七八糟的船上。

(5)The family of the victim said that the killer had got his just deserts when he was jailed for life.

受害者家属说杀人犯被终身监禁是得到了他应有的惩罚。

同义词

v. 放弃；遗弃

释义

plural noun

what a person deserves with regard to reward or (more usually) punishment

应得的奖赏；应得的惩罚（或报应）

the penal system fails to punish offenders in accordance with their deserts.

刑罚制度未能根据犯罪者应得的惩罚来有效惩处他们。

短语

get （或receive） one's just deserts receive what one deserves, especially appropriate punishment 得到应有的回报（尤指遭报应或得到应有的惩罚） those who caused great torment to others rarely got their just deserts. 给别人造成巨大痛苦的那些人很少得到应有的惩罚

易错必背词

cultural desert 文化荒漠

(1)This little town is something of a cultural desert by comparison.

相比之下，这个小镇有点像文化沙漠。[易懂例句]

词源

"Middle English： via Old French desert, from deservir ‘serve well' （see DESERVE）."

(1)Smaller continents were forming, creating countless new landscapes with new climates and environments, rising mountain ranges and dry inhospitable deserts.

很多小块的大陆正在形成创造了无数新的地貌景观，新气候 新环境，山脉拔地而起，干涸荒芜的沙漠也随之形成。《How To Grow A Planet》《植物之歌》