in the wilderness

基本解释

Flee, save your lives, and be like the heath in the wilderness.
你们要奔逃，自救性命，独自居住，好像旷野的杜松。
During this time, I thought a lot about Moses' 40-year journey in the wilderness with the children of Israel.
这段时间，我回想了许多有关先知摩西率领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.
地球上最美丽的地方是任何一个地方——太空荒野中的一只木筏，危险的、不太可能的、我们北极熊的家。

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.
在野外读过的漫长时间,让我们懂得很多事情，其中之一,是对于“控制“这一概念的重新认识。
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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.
如今你若把这些人杀了，那听到你名声的国家会说,耶和华因为不能把这些人领进,向他们起誓的应许之地,所以在旷野中把他们杀了。
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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.