n. 荒芜, 荒废, 荒凉

Desolation \Des`o*la"tion\, n. [F. d['e]solation, L. desolatio.]
1. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of
inhabitants; depopulation.

Unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
--Dan. ix. 26.

2. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin;
solitariness; destitution; gloominess.

You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . .
And his whole kingdom into desolation. --Shak.

3. A place or country wasted and forsaken.

How is Babylon become a desolation! --Jer. l. 23.

Syn: Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation; ravage;
sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess.