We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin.

我们向外望着一片荒凉、破败的景象。

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I finally found, god is fair for giving desolation a splendid beauty and decorating the world with four seasons.

我终于明白，上苍很公平，给予荒凉一份壮美，给予原野四季装饰。

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That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness

那日是忿怒的日子，是急难困苦的日子，是荒废凄凉的日子，是黑暗，幽冥，密云，乌黑的日子。

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Yet "The Road, " for all its vivid desolation, remains a curiously unmoving experience or maybe not so curious, given that nothing really happens in it.

CNN: Review: A journey down 'The Road'

Those with longer memories remember him as a film-music wizard whose scores for Paris, Texas (1984) and the Southern blues myth Crossroads (1986), among many, brought a spooky desolation to Hollywood storytelling.

NPR: Music's Renegade Historian in Rural America

The next day, Good Friday, he found the church stripped as a sign of desolation.

ECONOMIST: Cardinal Lustiger