英语单词 | despair |
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英美音标 | [dis'peə(r)] |
中文释义 | n.绝望,失望,令人失望的人(事物) vi.绝望 |
vocab简明 | Despair is the feeling of not having any hope left. If you just found out that you're having a test in math and you hadn't studied at all, you might feel despair, or despair of any hope that you can pass it. |
vocab扩展 | Despair can also refer to someone or something that causes you to worry or be sad. Unfortunately, some children are the despair of their parents. The verb despair means to lose hope. Despair is from Latin desperare "to be without hope," from the prefix de- "without" plus sperare "to hope," from spes "hope." |
真题原句 | Consumers say they’re not in despair because, despite the dreadful headlines, their own fortunes still feel pretty good. |
柯林斯星级 | ★★☆☆☆ |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]绝望 Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve. [also N in pl]
2 [VERB 动词]感到绝望;失去希望 If you despair, you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve. [V] [V
3 [VERB 动词]对…感到绝望;对…不抱希望 If you despair of something, you feel that there is no hope that it will happen or improve. If you despair of someone, you feel that there is no hope that they will improve. [V
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来源 | 2004.3 |
Tags: 单词::2004, 单词::阅读词库
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