despairnoun [ U ] uk
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B2 the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation: mood/sense of despair Hope began to fade, leaving a mood/sense of despair. They're in (the depths of) despair over/about the money they've lost.to someone’s despair To her teacher's despair, Nicole never does the work that she's told to do.drive someone to despair Their fourth year without rain drove many farmers to despair. be the despair of someone mainly UK
to cause someone such difficulties that they do not know how to deal with you: He's the despair of his parents because he shows no interest in getting a job.
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更多範例减少例句A feeling of despair descended on us as we realized that we were completely lost.He was plunged into despair when his wife left him.In despair, the theatre director searched everywhere for a new lead actor.Over a bottle of wine, we shared our despair over the state of our marriages.He sank into deep despair when he lost his job.
「SMART 詞彙」：相關單字和片語
Sadness and regret
anticipatory grief
aw
be/weigh on your conscience idiom
bitter
black dog
cry
feel bad idiom
gloominess
glumness
guilt
guilt complex
penitential
prick
prick someone's conscience idiom
regretful
regretfully
repentant
wound
wrench
wretchedness
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despairverb [ I ] uk
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to feel despair about something or someone: Don't despair! We'll find a way out!despair at/over I despair at/over the policies of this government.despair of They began to despair of ever being rescued.
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Not hopeful
be in a funk idiom
be on a hiding to nothing idiom
be on the road to nowhere idiom
beyond hope
bleakly
dispiritingly
doom and gloom
doomed
doomster
downcast
downhearted
gloom
hopeless
hopelessly
hopelessness
lose heart idiom
merchant
unhopeful
Weltschmerz
what are you going to do? idiom
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相關詞語
despairing
despairingly
(despair在劍橋高級學習詞典和同義詞詞典中的解釋 © Cambridge University Press)
despair | 美式英語詞典
despairnoun [ U ] us
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a feeling of being without hope or of not being able to improve a situation: A few sad moments doesn’t imply feelings of despair. She flung up her arms in despair and wailed.
despairverb [ I ] us
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to lose hope or be without hope: Don’t despair – things will improve. He began to despair of ever finding a job.
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despair的例句
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I am told that he has almost miraculously managed to raise funds when others of a less optimistic nature might well have despaired.
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They are, and one despairs of knowing when they are to be improved.
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We should consider the hopes and despairs of the real persons behind the figures.
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All the councillors in my local authority are despairing because they do not know what to do.
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A pessimist is only a man who, having set out those difficulties, despairs of ever overcoming them.
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However, that kind of approach requires such a revolution in government thinking that one despairs of it ever happening.
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We know today that that despairing nation in 1933 is now the richest and most powerful nation in the world.
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However, the last thing we should be is despairing.
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We are not despairing; it would not he forgivable on this subject to lose hope.
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Returning officers up and down the country despaired at the process.
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He is despairing at the situation of two of his patients.
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They inhabit estates that are despairing places in which to live and raise families.
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I have always despaired of some teachers who really think that the education system exists for the most able pupils and no one else.
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Fines are one measure, but one despairs at times of the attitudes of the courts.
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I have shared with them their despairs and their hopes, their tragedies and their disenchantment with this policy.
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包含despair的固定搭配
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absolute despairThese men have had these promises held out to them for many years past, and they are in a condition of absolute despair.
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complete despairI think that would be disastrous for all concerned and would be an action of complete despair.
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counsel of despairI suppose we may agree that a primitive mechanism of "grasping" is, if true, a counsel of despair.
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