音标:[di'spєә] ; 柯林斯词典等级:2 级;
n. 绝望, 失望
vi. 绝望
n. a state in which all hope is lost or absent
n. the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
v. abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart
词型变化:过去式 : despaired ; 过去分词 : despaired ; 名词复数形式 : despairs ; 现在分词 : despairing ; 第三人称单数 : despairs
考试类型:[四级/六级/考研/IELTS]
词性分布:
名词83%
动词17%

despair的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. A person is most disappointed when he is in despair.一个人在绝望时最失望。
  2. He has been in the abyss of despair.他已陷入绝望的深渊。
  3. He fluctuated between hope and despair.他时而充满希望时而失望。
  4. He is the despair of all other pianists.他使其他所有的钢琴家都感到失望。
用作不及物动词(vi.)
  1. We cannot despair of humanity, since we are ourselves human beings.身为人类,我们不能对人性失望。
  2. They despaired of winning the game.他们不抱比赛得胜的希望。

常见句型

用作名词(n.)
  1. Defeat after defeat filled us with despair.一次又一次的失败使我们完全绝望了。
  2. The boy is the despair of his teachers.老师们认为这孩子已无可救药。
  3. He was in despair of ever being able to pay off his debts.他对自己能够清偿债务已不抱任何希望。
用作动词(v.)
用作不及物动词S+~(+A)
  1. Don't abandon yourself to despair.不要悲观失望。
  2. She has despaired deeply.她已深为绝望。
  3. Even though all her family and financial troubles,Margaret never gave way to despair.即使因为家庭和经济发生困难,玛格丽特也从来没有悲观失望过。
  4. Do not despair, things will get better soon!不要绝望,情况会很快好起来的。
  5. In all things, it is better to hope than to despair.在任何情况下,抱有希望总比绝望强。
  6. So long as you help me,I shall never despair.只要有你帮助我,我是决不会灰心丧气的。
  7. She despaired at the thought of it.一想到这件事她就心灰意冷。

常用短语

用作动词(v.)
despair of (v.+prep.)
    对(某人,尤其对其行为)感到十分焦急,担心 feel very anxious about (sb), especially as regards his behaviourdespair of sb/sth

    He despaired of his future.

    他对他的将来不抱希望。

    Don't despair of success; where there's a will, there's a way.

    别悲观失望,有志者事竟成。

    He did not despair of victory in the end.

    他没有失去最后赢得胜利的信心。

    We should never despair of success.

    我们切勿对成功丧失信心。

    The patient's life was despaired of, all hope that he would live was lost.

    此病人已病入膏肓,救活无望。

    despair of v-ing

    The doctor despaired of saving the child's life.

    医生对救活这孩子已失去了信心。

    She had despaired of completing her thesis.

    她对完成论文已失去了信心。

    They despaired of winning the game.

    他们不抱比赛得胜的希望。

    despair of sb

    I despair of those children.

    我对那些孩子十分担心。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)
~+副词
  • despair hardly〔nearly〕几乎绝望
  • despair deeply深为绝望
~+介词
  • despair at sth对…感到灰心丧气
  • despair for对…感到绝望
  • despair of对…绝望; 对…感到担心

经典引文

  • A sadness overcame him, more than sadness, a despair.

    出自:R. P. Warren
  • Revolution, though born of despair, cannot long be sustained by despair.

    出自:M. L. King
  • Hollow-eyed Abstinence, and lean Despair.

    出自:personified
  • His life was despaired of.

    出自:M. W. Montagu
  • We carried her disease backwards and forwards over Europe..until I began to despair.

    出自:L. Durrell
  • Herr Lustgarten was beginning..to despair of teaching me more.

    出自:M. Moorcock
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