desolation

1. N-UNCOUNT Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness. 凄凉

Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity. 科泽来克毫不自怜地表达了他内心的凄凉。

2. N-UNCOUNT If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example, because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army. 荒凉[表不满]

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。