He said his deputies needed it for protection while patrolling desolate areas where drug and immigrant smugglers have been spotted.

VOA: standard.2010.07.20

So it is a very desolate area.

因此那是荒无人烟的地区。

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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

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

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

But India's diamond center is now desolate. Merchants in the once busy trading city say they have transacted virtually no business since last Christmas as orders dry up from Western buyers, who bought nearly 90 percent of their stones.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03