Despair

(noun.) the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well; 'they moaned in despair and dismay'; 'one harsh word would send her into the depths of despair'.

(noun.) a state in which all hope is lost or absent; 'in the depths of despair'; 'they were rescued from despair at the last minute'; 'courage born of desperation'.

(verb.) abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart; 'Don't despair--help is on the way!'.

整理:特蕾西

• His handsome face was distorted with a spasm of despair, and his hands tore at his hair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Lydgate did not speak, but tossed his head on one side, and twitched the corners of his mouth in despair. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• This preposterous order roused the Carthaginians to despair. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Such instances save us from utter despair of our kind. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Yet I did not despair. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She struck her hands together in despair. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Hideously certain did it seem that the very youngest of the school must guess why and for whom I despaired. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• How she had despaired and hoped to die there; and now were not all her wishes accomplished, and the lover of whom she had despaired her own for ever? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He almost despaired of success, when, suddenly, he observed the loose fibres of his string to move towards an erect position. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• As it was, many loyal people despaired in the fall of 1862 of ever saving the Union. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It is said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is despaired of. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• This event had at last been despaired of, but it was then too late to be saving. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I had not despaired; nor had I yet conceived the idea of returning, if set free. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Every one of them is capable of cruelties and fine emotions, of despairs and devotions and self-forgetful effort. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• And when, looking up, her eyes met his dull despairing glance, her pity for him surmounted her anger and all her other anxieties. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The air was filled with groans and clashing of arms--the floors were slippery with the blood of despairing and expiring wretches. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There was neither pleasure nor exultation in Cassy's eyes,--only a despairing firmness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She met Gerty's lamentable eyes, fixed on her in a despairing effort at consolation, and the look brought her to herself. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• A sorrowful indifference to existence often pressed on me--a despairing resignation to reach betimes the end of all things earthly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it, through slow years, stagnant. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Her father might be a heretic; but had not she, in her despairing doubts not five minutes before, shown herself a far more utter sceptic? 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

校对:维多利亚