despaired

英 [dɪˈspeəd]

美 [dɪˈsperd]

v.  绝望; 失去希望; 丧失信心
despair的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 绝望
  Despairis the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
  1. I looked at my wife in despair...
     我绝望地看着妻子。
  2. ...feelings of despair or inadequacy.
     绝望或无能的感觉
• VERB 感到绝望;失去希望
  If youdespair, you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
  1. 'Oh, I despair sometimes,' he says in mock sorrow...
     “啊，我有时会感到绝望，”他假装悲伤地说。
  2. He does despair at much of the press criticism.
     面对媒体的诸多批评他的确感到绝望。
• VERB 对…感到绝望;对…不抱希望
  If youdespair ofsomething, you feel that there is no hope that it will happen or improve. If youdespair ofsomeone, you feel that there is no hope that they will improve.
  1. He wished to earn a living through writing but despaired of doing so.
     他想通过写作来谋生，不过他对此不抱希望。
  2. ...efforts to find homes for people despairing of ever having a roof over their heads...
     为那些对有瓦遮头不再抱有任何希望的人们找到住处的努力
  3. There are signs that many voters have already despaired of politicians.
     有迹象表明许多选民对政客已经不抱希望。

双语例句

• Consulting one professional after another, his mother despaired that nothing seemed to help.
  经过一次又一次专业的谘询，他的母亲感到绝望，似乎没有什麽能帮上忙。
• It is said when Robert Clive was a boy his parents despaired of him.
  据说罗伯特科菜小的时候，他父母对他很失望。
• I have suffered and despaired and know death and I am glad that I am in this great world.
  我曾受苦难，曾沮丧绝望，曾尝到死亡的滋味，因此我为活在这伟大的尘世而高兴。
• He despaired of being able to repair the TV set.
  他对能否修好这台电视机表示失望。
• We've despaired of him; he can't keep a job for more than six months.
  我们对他非常失望，没有哪个工作他能干半年以上。
• I used to work next to a law school I despaired every time I passed by, wondering how so many of its bright graduates would end up destroying value for our communities, inhibiting innovation, placing a burden on enterprise and killing jobs.
  我曾经的工作地点隔壁就是一所法学院每次我路过这所学校都感到绝望，纳闷为什么那么多聪明的毕业生，最终只会破坏我们的社会价值、阻碍创新、给企业造成负担、并削减就业。
• Could Sir Thomas have seen all his niece's feelings, when she wrote her first letter to her aunt, he would not have despaired;
  托马斯爵士若能知道外甥女给姨妈写第一封信时的心情，也就不会感到绝望了。
• This event had at last been despaired of, but it was then too late to be saving.
  这个指望落了空，如今省吃俭用已经太迟了。
• Mike despaired of ever seeing her again.
  迈克对再次见到她已不抱任何希望。
• She had despaired of completing her thesis.
  她对完成论文绝望了。