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

• 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。
• Finally, he has despaired, time and time againdisappointedly enable him also not to have the courage to attemptagain again, he was tired.
  最后，他绝望了，一次又一次的失望使他再也没有勇气再去尝试，他累了。
• We create our cities in our minds, sometimes before we ever see them, sometimes after we have despaired of them, from the snippets and stories we have gleaned, the writers we have read.
  我们借助自己拾取收集的信息与传说和我们读过的作者，在头脑中形成自己的城市&有时在我们见到它之前，有时在我们对其感到绝望之后。
• Most scientists despaired of ever knowing the physical nature of the stars.
  大多数科学对了解恒星的物理性质失去了信心。
• As he grew up, he thought that he was outside the pale of society, and he despaired of ever re-entering it.
  他成长以后，认为自己是社会以外的人，永远没有进入社会的希望。
• 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。
• She stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and despaired.
  她站立在大街和华盛顿路交叉的街角上，大失所望。
• Mike despaired of ever seeing her again.
  迈克对再次见到她已不抱任何希望。
• 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。
• 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。