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单词 despair
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despair
noun[U]
uk
/dɪˈspeər/us
/dɪˈsper/
B2
thefeelingthat there is nohopeand that you can do nothing toimproveadifficultorworryingsituation:
绝望
amood/senseofdespair绝望的情绪／感觉
They'rein(thedepthsof)despairover/aboutthemoneythey'velost.他们对找回丢失的钱已经不抱（任何）希望了。
Toher teacher's despair, Nicole never does theworkthat she's told to do.妮科尔从不做作业，让她的老师感到非常失望。
Their fourthyearwithoutraindrovemanyfarmerstodespair.第四年仍然没有雨水，这让许多农民感到非常绝望。
be the despair ofsomeonemainlyUK
tocausesomeone suchdifficultiesthat they do notknowhow todealwith you:
成为…的心病，使…头疼
He's the despair of hisparentsbecause heshowsnointerestin getting ajob.他对找工作没有任何兴趣，让父母感到非常头疼。
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  • Afeelingof despairdescendedon us as werealizedthat we werecompletelylost.
  • He wasplungedinto despair when hiswifelefthim.
  • In despair, thetheatredirectorsearchedeverywherefor a newleadactor.
  • Over abottleofwine, wesharedourdespair over thestateofourmarriages.
  • Hesankintodeepdespair when helosthisjob.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Sadness and regret
  • aw
  • be/weigh onyourconscienceidiom
  • bitter
  • black dog
  • breastbeating
  • cry
  • feel badidiom
  • gloominess
  • glumness
  • groan
  • guilt
  • guilt complex
  • melancholia
  • regretfully
  • remorse
  • remorseful
  • remorsefully
  • repent
  • repentance
  • repentant
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despair
verb[I]
uk
/dɪˈspeər/us
/dɪˈsper/
tofeeldespair about something or someone:
绝望；失去希望
Don't despair! We'llfinda way out!不要绝望！我们会找到办法的！
I despairat/overthepoliciesof thisgovernment.我对该政府的政策感到极度失望。
Theybeganto despairofeverbeingrescued.他们开始对获救失去了希望。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not hopeful
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be on a hiding to nothingidiom
  • bleak
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • dispiritingly
  • doomed
  • doomster
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • forlorn
  • gloom
  • hopelessly
  • hopelessness
  • lose heartidiom
  • merchant
  • merchant of doom/gloomidiom
  • someonecan't winidiom
  • undone
  • what are you going to do?idiom
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Related words

despairing
despairingly
(Definition ofdespairfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

despair| American Dictionary

despair
noun[U]
us
/dɪˈspeər/
afeelingof being withouthopeor of not beingabletoimproveasituation:
A fewsadmomentsdoesn’timplyfeelingsof despair.
Sheflungup herarmsin despair andwailed.
despair
verb[I]
us
/dɪˈsper,-ˈspær/
tolosehopeor be withouthope:
Don’t despair – things willimprove.
Hebeganto despair ofeverfindingajob.
(Definition ofdespairfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdespair

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Migration is taking place, and we can understand men, despairing of the future in this area, who are leaving.
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I am told that he has almost miraculously managed to raise funds when others of a less optimistic nature might well have despaired.
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They are, and one despairs of knowing when they are to be improved.
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We should consider the hopes and despairs of the real persons behind the figures.
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All the councillors in my local authority are despairing because they do not know what to do.
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A pessimist is only a man who, having set out those difficulties, despairs of ever overcoming them.
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However, that kind of approach requires such a revolution in government thinking that one despairs of it ever happening.
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We know today that that despairing nation in 1933 is now the richest and most powerful nation in the world.
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However, the last thing we should be is despairing.
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We are not despairing; it would not he forgivable on this subject to lose hope.
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Returning officers up and down the country despaired at the process.
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He is despairing at the situation of two of his patients.
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They inhabit estates that are despairing places in which to live and raise families.
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I have always despaired of some teachers who really think that the education system exists for the most able pupils and no one else.
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Fines are one measure, but one despairs at times of the attitudes of the courts.
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absolute despair
These men have had these promises held out to them for many years past, and they are in a condition of absolute despair.
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complete despair
I think that would be disastrous for all concerned and would be an action of complete despair.
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counsel of despair
I suppose we may agree that a primitive mechanism of "grasping" is, if true, a counsel of despair.
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