| 英语单词 | despair |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [dɪ'speə(r)] 美 [dɪ'sper] |
| 中文释义 | n.绝望;失望 vi.失望 |
| 英语例句 | (1) A person is most disappointed when he is in despair. (2) He has been in the abyss of despair. (3) He fluctuated between hope and despair. (4) He is the despair of all other pianists. (5) We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings. (6) They despaired of winning the game. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 一个人在绝望时最失望。 (2) 他已陷入绝望的深渊。 (3) 他时而充满希望时而失望。 (4) 他使其他所有的钢琴家都感到失望。 (5) 身为人类,我们不能对人性失望。 (6) 他们不抱比赛得胜的希望。 |
| vocabulary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. |
| vocabulary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." |
| 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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