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N-UNCOUNT
絕望
Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
例句
I looked at my wife in despair...
我絕望地看著妻子。
...feelings of despair or inadequacy.
絕望或無能的感覺
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VERB
感到絕望;失去希望
If you despair, you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
例句
'Oh, I despair sometimes,' he says in mock sorrow...
“啊，我有時會感到絕望，”他假裝悲傷地說。
He does despair at much of the press criticism.
面對媒體的諸多批評他的確感到絕望。
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VERB
對…感到絕望;對…不抱希望
If you despair of something, you feel that there is no hope that it will happen or improve. If you despair of someone, you feel that there is no hope that they will improve.
例句
He wished to earn a living through writing but despaired of doing so.
他想通過寫作來謀生，不過他對此不抱希望。
...efforts to find homes for people despairing of ever having a roof over their heads...
為那些對有瓦遮頭不再抱有任何希望的人們找到住處的努力