0 an area, often covered with sand or rocks, where there is very little rain and not many plants -- 沙漠，荒漠
1 to leave the armed forces without permission and with no intention of returning -- 开小差，当逃兵；擅离（部队）
2 to leave someone without help or in a difficult situation and not come back -- 抛弃，丢弃
My paper, then, is based on archaeology in the sense that it comes from a study of extant deserted settlements and relic and current landscapes.
The rule of law was taking hold in both the settled zone and the desert.
The second objection accepts the legitimacy of assessing desert by interpersonal comparisons, but says that the pragmatic theory is inaccurate even on its own terms.
Such accumulations are observed in certain desert environments on earth.
Motherhood was considered a social duty and the widow who deserted her offspring was shirking her responsibility to society.
They are meant to reclaim place from the desert of non-place and, in the process, serve as monuments against forgetting.
They sit on the least viable chunk of desert and scrub that exists.
Numerous farms and entire villages were deserted in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and not one single market town was founded between 1350 and 1400.
