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单词 bereft
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bereft
adjective[after verb]
formal
uk
/bɪˈreft/us
/bɪˈreft/
not having something orfeelinggreatloss:
缺乏…的；感到失落的
Alone now andalmostpenniless, he was bereftofhope.他现在孤身一人，又几乎不名一文，对生活已不抱一丝希望。
After the last oftheirchildrenhadlefthomethecouplefeltutterlybereft.最后一个孩子离家之后，这对夫妇感到一无所有了。
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  • minus
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  • needsomethinglike you need a hole in the headidiom
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Feeling sad and unhappy
(Definition ofbereftfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

bereft| American Dictionary

bereft
adjective
us
/bɪˈreft/
having to do without something or someone andsufferingfrom theloss:
I dohopehe won'tleaveusutterlybereft of hiswitandwisdom.
(Definition ofbereftfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbereft

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A purely abstract composition, it is entirelybereftof gimmicks or obvious stimuli.
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The wife dies and the husband is leftbereft.
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It is instructive to note that principles are things of which such people and bodies so often seem to bebereft.
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The war-scorched landscape isbereftof human presence.
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Subsequent visitors, therefore, found themselvesbereftof guidance when viewing other fabrics, and their comments were correspondingly limited.
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But if we only have the first kind of history, the rhetoricized, we only recover a past in its otherness,bereftof context.
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The natural person who follows a scriptural injunction as to offending members may find himself eternallybereft; the group person is more fortunate.
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More generally speaking too, free-floating individualsbereftof a community identity were potential criminals who often took to breaking the law.
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From this perspective, organs arebereftof any symbolic meaning and do not have any significance for the person.
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However, none but the most ideologically pure and intellectuallybereftwill be able to discount this work.
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Warts and all, that is no small achievement in a field sobereftof comparative research.
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Yet many would doubt that the original scriptural text is sobereftof argument as is alleged here.
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Instead, readers arebereftof predictable orientation and lacking heroic characters or an omnipresent narrator to guide them.
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It resides, on their view, in certain elite thinkers, whereas others arebereft.
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This was in fact a general strategy of a governmentbereftof social supporters and anxious to establish a solid relationship with relevant sectors of civil society.
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