Desperation
[despə'reɪʃn] or [,dɛspə'reʃən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
(n.) A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
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同義詞及近義詞:
n. Despair, hopelessness.
邦妮整理
例句/造句/用法:
- You will drive him to desperation, she said, and increase our dangers tenfold. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- But being soured, Mr Wegg, and driven to reckless madness and desperation, I suppose it's Yes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Ma'am,' said Mr. Pickwick, thrusting out his head in the extremity of his desperation, 'ma'am! 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Now he dug with it in a steady, almost machinelike desperation. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I was just saying to Eunice when you came in— My dear aunt, the joke is not worth telling you, said Maurice, in desperation cutting her short. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Nerved by the courage of desperation, she opened the door. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I haven't got to keep it warm,' Mr Wegg made answer, in a sort of desperation occasioned by the singularity of the question. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I felt, if not brave, yet a little desperate; and desperation will often suffice to fill the post and do the work of courage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This intention, with a promptitude often the effect of desperation, he at once commenced carrying into execution, with much vigour and surgical skill. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- What does this unmannerly boy mean,' asked Mr. Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort of desperation, 'by Tight-Jeff? 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Brummell here forced his way through the crowd in a fit of desperation and disappeared. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But I resisted all these overtures, and sat there in desperation; each time asking him, with tears in my eyes, for my money or my jacket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- It's worse than boots, it's a silk dress, she said, with the calmness of desperation, for she wanted the worst over. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
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