| 单词 | despondent |
| 释义 | de·spon·dent I. < despondent about his health, he killed himself > Synonyms: < something dark and cold had settled over her thoughts. She could not shake it off though she told herself that it was unreasonable for her to feel so despondent — Ellen Glasgow > < Twain was filled with a despondent desire, a momentary purpose even, to stop writing altogether — Van Wyck Brooks > forlorn connotes pitiful, hopeless dejection, often resulting from a betrayal, calamity, or bereavement < poor Columbine, forlorn and betrayed and dying, out in the cold at midnight — sinking down to hell, perhaps — was making her last frantic appeal — George du Maurier > < suggested by the potrait of Beatrice Cenci; and, in fact, there was a look somewhat similar to poor Beatrice's forlorn gaze out of the dreary isolation and remoteness, in which a terrible doom had involved a tender soul — Nathaniel Hawthorne > Applied to actions or situations, it suggests a pathetic inadequacy certain of frustration or defeat < spoke … with a forlorn effort at dignity — Sinclair Lewis > hopeless suggests ending of hope and struggle and may imply dejection or resignation < the little hopeless community of beaten men and yellow defeated women — Sherwood Anderson > < realizing now that pleading was useless, the men quieted down, and we resigned ourselves to the situation in that mood of hopeless apathy that comes over men powerless to help themselves — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > Of actions, it indicates impossibility of success and makes no implication about the spirit of the actors < no body of men would stand against them, so hopeless was the enterprise — H.G.Wells > despairing may suggest a situation in which a last, wild, vain hope is harbored < tauntingly repelling the last despairing claim of a condemned culprit — H.T.Cockburn > < the author of ‘Friendship's Garland’ ended with a despairing appeal to the democracy, when his jeremiads evoked no response from the upper class, whom he called barbarians, or from the middle class, whom he regarded as incurably vulgar — W.R.Inge > Applied to people, desperate describes conditions in which reasonable hope is gone, or reckless action is considered < now inhabited by a band of brigands, outlawed by government, strong in discipline, furious from penury, reckless by habit, desperate in circumstance — a crew which feared not God nor man nor devil — J.L.Motley > < driven from their cabins and little holdings, their crops and cattle taken from them, they were everywhere around desperate with poverty, and discontented equally with their own landlords and the restraints put upon them by the government — Anthony Trollope > < he felt desperate. He was ready to pay any price — Arnold Bennett > Used with situations, it indicates wild crucial importunateness and exigency < he is in a more desperate way financially than ever. He can borrow no more, and his debtors are clamoring — Gertrude Atherton > < when a country is in desperate straits, and everything hangs on the issue of a single battle — W.H.Mallock > Of actions, it indicates motivation by despair < the king's desperate efforts could hardly save his army from utter rout — J.R.Green > < such cries of terror and consternation on the part of the bird, tacking to the right and left, and making the most desperate efforts to escape — John Burroughs > II. |
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