desolation

1. N-UNCOUNT Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness. 淒涼

Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity. 科澤來尅毫不自憐地表達(dá)了他內(nèi)心的淒涼。

2. N-UNCOUNT If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example, because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army. 荒涼[表不滿]

We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin. 我們曏外望著一片荒涼、破敗的景象。