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Despair French Desperer Latin Lose Hope 5488.Despair 英

正面 5488.despair
英 [dɪ'speə]美 [dɪ'spɛr]

背面
释义:
n. 绝望;令人绝望的人或事vi. 绝望,丧失信心
例句:
1. Don't let yourself despair; this will only make matters worse.不要想不开,这样只能使情况变得更糟。

音译“听”----量词,指镀锡薄板(马口铁)密封成筒状以贮藏食物、饮料等。如:一听罐头,一听啤酒等。
despair 绝望de-, 不,非,使相反。-spair, 希望,词源同speed, prosper. 即没有希望的,绝望。
despairdespair: [14] Etymologically, despair is literally ‘lack of hope’. The word comes via Old French desperer from Latin dēspērāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē-, denoting reversal, and spērāre, a derivative of the noun spēs ‘hope’. Its past participle, dēspērātus, produced English desperate [15], from which desperado is a 17th-century mock-Spanish coinage.=> desperatedespair (n.)c. 1300, from Anglo-French despeir, Old French despoir, from desperer (see despair (v.)). Replaced native wanhope.despair (v.)early 14c., from stem of Old French desperer "be dismayed, lose hope, despair," from Latin desperare "to despair, to lose all hope," from de- "without" (see de-) + sperare "to hope," from spes "hope" (see sperate). Related: Despaired; despairing; despairingly."

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