Hopeless
['həʊplɪs] or ['hopləs]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; 'she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers'; 'he is a hopeless romantic' .
(adj.) without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; 'in an agony of hopeless grief'; 'with a hopeless sigh he sat down' .
(adj.) certain to fail; 'the situation is hopeless' .
(adj.) of a person unable to do something skillfully; 'I'm hopeless at mathematics' .
整理:保罗--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.
(a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.
(a.) Unhoped for; despaired of.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Despairing, desperate, forlorn.[2]. Remediless, irremediable, incurable, past cure.[3]. Impossible, impracticable.
編輯:迈尔斯
例句/造句/用法:
- My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I don't even blame you--I pity you for opening your heart to a hopeless affection. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The case is hopeless. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I copied as quickly as I could, but at nine o'clock I had only done nine articles, and it seemed hopeless for me to attempt to catch my train. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Now, was there some one in the hopeless unattainable distance? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- In that, he could not be defended; but if he had injured her, how much more had he injured himself; if her case were pitiable, his was hopeless. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Still, to get to Egypt, was something, in the eyes of the unfortunate colonists, hopeless as the prospect seemed of ever getting further. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The cruellest looks could not have wounded him more than that glance of hopeless kindness. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I saw it was hopeless and useless to speak, and I only put my arm round her, and held her to me in silence. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mr. Dawson very unwillingly made the concession required of him--I think he saw that it was hopeless to dispute with her. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Because it was so endless, so hopeless. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- At one while my journey looked hopeful, and at another hopeless. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In a less critical situation the effort need not have been given up as hopeless even yet. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They nearly shook my mind; relief was so hopeless, redress so unattainable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- At what time of the night he had gone, or how, or why, it seemed hopeless ever to divine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Fish on his return from St. Louis, after he had argued the Edison side, he felt keenly that disadvantage, to say nothing of the hopeless difficulty of educating the court. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Although it seemed a well-nigh hopeless task, he entered upon the investigation with his usual optimism and vim. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- I feel such a despair, so hopeless, as if it were the end of the world. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured by my fancy. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- It was useless and hopeless. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- They were hopeless of remedy. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It is a picture of hopeless drudgery and blank ignorance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Oh, my dear, he returned with a hopeless gesture. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I did not care to spend more money in a hopeless attempt at recovering them. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- And of course it is hopeless. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
編輯:迈尔斯