To my poor boy, left doubly desolate, I have never been able to impart a sense of my presence.

而我可怜的孩子留在那里，疑惑而哀伤。我从来没有让我的存在被人感知。

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The poem depicts the scene that a traveler in a desolate and dull mountain has to lodge in a poor cottage on a freezing night.

这首诗描写的是在一个风雪交加的寒冷的夜晚，赶路的人在荒凉、萧条的山中投宿于一个贫苦人家的情景。

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He was unwilling to return to his desolate and bleak hometown because it was too poor.

他不愿回到荒寂的家乡，因为那里实在是太穷了。

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The setting is a cramped, chilly room off a desolate courtyard, sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a poor, elderly couple, Gebo (Michael Lonsdale) and Doroteia (Claudia Cardinale), are haunted by the eight-year absence of their prodigal son, whose wife, Sofia (Leonor Silveira), they have taken in.

NEWYORKER: Gebo and the Shadow