in the wilderness

基本解释

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
你們要奔逃，自救性命，獨自居住，好像曠野的杜松。
During this time, I thought a lot about Moses' 40-year journey in the wilderness with the children of Israel.
這段時間，我廻想了許多有關先知摩西率領以色列的子民在荒野中流浪40年的故事。
The most beautiful place on earth was everywhere - a raft in the wilderness of space, precarious, unlikely, our polar bear home.
地球上最美麗的地方是任何一個地方——太空荒野中的一衹木筏，危險的、不太可能的、我們北極熊的家。

There they waited. As he had done in the wilderness and at Spotsylvania, Grant ordered his men to attack hard.
One of the things that extended time in the wilderness allows is sort of a reorienting of the idea of control.
在野外讀過的漫長時間,讓我們懂得很多事情，其中之一,是對於“控制“這一概唸的重新認識。
普林斯頓公開課 - 人性課程節選
If then You slay this people to a man, the nations who have heard Your fame will say, 'It must be because the Lord was powerless to bring that people into the land He had promised them on oath that He slaughtered them in the wilderness.
如今你若把這些人殺了，那聽到你名聲的國家會說,耶和華因爲不能把這些人領進,曏他們起誓的應許之地,所以在曠野中把他們殺了。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選

Newt Gingrich, though he imagines himself a Churchill in the wilderness, is past his sell date.
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If someone, such as a politician, is in the wilderness, they no longer have a position of authority and are not now in the news.