despair
n. 絕望
v. 感到絕望; 不抱希望
Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
I looked at my wife in despair...
我絕望地看著妻子。
...feelings of despair or inadequacy.
絕望或無能的感覺
If you despair, you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
'Oh, I despair sometimes,' he says in mock sorrow...
“啊,我有時會感到絕望,”他假裝悲傷地說。
He does despair at much of the press criticism.
面對媒體的諸多批評他的確感到絕望。
If you despair of something, you feel that there is no hope that it will happen or improve. If you despair of someone, you feel that there is no hope that they will improve.
He wished to earn a living through writing but despaired of doing so.
他想透過寫作來謀生,不過他對此不抱希望。
...efforts to find homes for people despairing of ever having a roof over their heads...
為那些對有瓦遮頭不再抱有任何希望的人們找到住處的努力
1. a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly;
2. the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
1. abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart;
despair, desperation, depression, disappointment
這些名詞都有"絕望,沮喪"之意。
be the despair of
是使(別人)感到絕望
His moods kept changing — now happy, now filled with despair.
他情緒多變——時而高興, 時而感到絕望.
The failure drove him into despair.
這次失敗使他絕望了.
The boy is the despair of his teachers.
這男孩使老師們感到無可救藥.
His mother flung up her hands in despair when the boy failed yet another examination.
當孩子考試又不及格時,母親感到毫無希望了.
If you are in the depths of despair, you are extremely unhappy.
如果你徹底地失望, 你會十分不開心.
vi. 絕望,喪失信心
其他釋義
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