Despairing
[dɪ'speərɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; 'a despairing view of the world situation'; 'the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal'; 'a desperate cry for help'; 'helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether'; 'her desperate screams' .
科妮莉亚手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Despair
(a.) Feeling or expressing despair; hopeless.
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- And when, looking up, her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her pity for him surmounted her anger and all her other anxieties. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms--the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There was neither pleasure nor exultation in Cassy's eyes,--only a despairing firmness. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- She met Gerty's lamentable eyes, fixed on her in a despairing effort at consolation, and the look brought her to herself. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it, through slow years, stagnant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Her father might be a heretic; but had not she, in her despairing doubts not five minutes before, shown herself a far more utter sceptic? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Clym was very grave at the intelligence, but not despairing. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Her quivering lips, her despairing heart refused to afford her voice to express our misfortune. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Mrs. Bute did not augur much good to the cause from the sending of her son James as an ambassador, and saw him depart in rather a despairing mood. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- It found her despairing, it left her desperate--two different states. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Lately, they very often wouldn't laugh, and he used to come home despairing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Jo gave a despairing groan, and Meg laughed outright, while Beth let her bread burn as she watched the fun with interest. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I confided all to my aunt when I got home; and in spite of all she could say to me, went to bed despairing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Despairing, I had him removed to the pits, where he still is. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- She listened for an instant, threw up her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and as noiselessly as she had come. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- When despairing African fugitives do the same thing,--it is--what _is_ it? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Quite despairing of making my mind clear to Wemmick on this point, I forbore to try. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I remember pausing once, with a kind of sorrow that was not all oppressive, not quite despairing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- With a despairing glance at her set, she obeyed. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The despairing way in which my mother and I look at each other, as I blunder on, is truly melancholy. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Act fourth displayed the despairing Roderigo on the point of stabbing himself because he has been told that Zara has deserted him. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- For a moment she remained motionless; then she raised on him eyes of such despairing dearness that he half-released her waist from his hold. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I got up despairing, and went out despairing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- At length he put it down, as if despairing of success; and, leaning back in his chair, muttered: 'What a fine thing capital punishment is! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But he is generally melancholy and despairing; and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Despairing of Spanish help, Columbus sent his brother Bartholomew to Henry VII of England, but the adventure did not attract that canny monarch. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- When unopposed they spread their ravages wide; in cases of danger they clustered, and by dint of numbers overthrew their weak and despairing foes. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
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