Despond
[di'spɒnd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) lose confidence or hope; become dejected; 'The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election'.
整理:诺里斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view.
(n.) Despondency.
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同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Despair, be cast down, be disheartened, lose hope, lose courage, be despondent, give up, abandon hope.
手打:莉莲
解釋/意思:
v.i. to lose hope or courage: to despair.—ns. Despond′ence Despond′ency state of being without hope: dejection.—adj. Despond′ent desponding: without courage or hope: sad.—advs. Despond′ently; Despond′ingly.
艾迪整理
例句/造句/用法:
- My search was utterly vain, yet I did not despond. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- We were in the Slough of Despond tonight, and Mother came and pulled us out as Help did in the book. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Don't despond, said Carton, very gently; don't grieve. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The name of the slough was Despond. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Not her father's desponding attitude had power to damp her now. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- I wonder the writs haven't followed me down here, Rawdon continued, still desponding. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He and Mrs. Weston were both dreadfully desponding. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- And as for the vague something--was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- At last he stopped right opposite to Margaret, and looked at her drooping and desponding attitude for an instant. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry--then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He still seemed to me most absurd when he obstinately doubted, and desponded about his power to win in the end Miss Fanshawe's preference. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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