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deserts [dıˈzɜːts] N

I . desert1 [dıˈzɜːt] VB trans

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II . desert1 [dıˈzɜːt] VB intr

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desert
逃跑 táopǎo
desert
开小差 kāi xiǎochāi
▶ desertion [dıˈzɜːʃən] N

desert2 [ˈdezət] N

Usage examples with deserts

Each should be given his deserts.
对每个人都应赏罚分明。
get [or have, meet with] one's deserts
受到应有的赏罚 shòudào yīngyǒude shǎngfá

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There are many barriers to healthful, affordable food for elderly living in rural food deserts.
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Deserts, forests, rain forests, plains, grasslands, and other areas including the most developed urban sites, all have distinct forms of wildlife.
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Women and children were forced to walk over mountains and through deserts.
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The species is widespread, growing in a variety of habitats across the country, from rainforest margins to deserts and subalpine areas.
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Here we have the distilled essence of the petty bourgeois intellectual who, incapable of swimming against the tide, deserts the revolutionary struggle and retreats behind a wall of pessimism.
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This is used by the emu as a protective visor to protect its eyes from dust that is prevalent in windy and arid deserts.
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Afterward came the main part of the ride: visions of futuristic life in cities, deserts, undersea, and even in space.
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She dwells in the wounds of the world, deserts, ruined houses, poverty, tatters, hunger, thirst, quarrels, mourning of children, in wild and other uncivilized, dangerous places.
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In inland deserts, parabolic dunes commonly originate and extend downwind from blowouts in sand sheets only partly anchored by vegetation.
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Larks' eggs are usually speckled, and clutch sizes range from two (especially in species of the driest deserts) to six (in species of temperate regions).
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