desert island

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An uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics. / (attributive) Designating something that a person considers indispensable and would always want to have available.

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We spent a week on a tiny desert island, learning to fish and build a shelter from palm fronds.

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意味（1）

An uninhabited island, especially one in the tropics.

Desert islands cannot harbour treachery, even from the enemy hidden within man himself.

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意味（2）

(attributive) Designating something that a person considers indispensable and would always want to have available.

It would be my desert island book, this Love Life for Every Married Couple; marriage being to me the most obvious path to the hardest lesson we've all got to learn […]

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desert islands （ 複数形 ）