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

• I have despaired, I thought that I can understand finally initially there insisted on the friend who leaves the evil spirit beastly world, perhaps their innermost feelings same struggle with me.
  我绝望了，我想我终于能够理解当初那里执意离开魔兽世界的朋友，他们的内心也许跟我一样的挣扎吧。
• 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。
• Mike despaired of ever seeing her again.
  迈克对再次见到她已不抱任何希望。
• The wind, please carries off me! Leads me to not to have the hunger, has not despaired with the sad place.
  风啊，请将我带走吧！将我带到一个没有饥饿，没有绝望和忧伤的地方。
• 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。
• The reporter could not affirm it, but he and his companions almost despaired of the result.
  通讯记者不敢断定，可是他和他的伙伴们几乎已经绝望了。
• 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。
• 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。
• They despaired of winning the game.
  他们不抱比赛得胜的希望。
• The doctor despaired of saving the patient's life.
  医生对抢救病人已失去信心。