In a country where half the people live on less than $2 a day, locals crowd desolate refugee camps, trying to get in.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

So it is a very desolate area.

因此那是荒无人烟的地区。

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The place is a fog-shrouded, desolate island off the coast of Massachusetts.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

And on this dazzling sheet, spread under the blackness of the clouds and emitting a bluish glow, Captain MacWhirr could catch a desolate glimpse of a few tiny specks black as ebony, the tops of the hatches, the battened companions, the heads of the covered winches, the foot of a mast.

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At the end of the journey, Ms Midwinter said she felt "totally desolate with a card on the front me".

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Mr Okiri works in a desolate part of Kenya, for a company that makes its wealth from a strange crust sitting on the top of a lake in the Rift Valley.

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