despair
英 [d?'spe?]
美[d?'sp?r]
- n. 绝望；令人绝望的人或事
- vi. 绝望，丧失信心
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词态变化
复数:?despairs;第三人称单数:?despairs;过去式:?despaired;过去分词:?despaired;现在分词:?despairing;
中文词源
despair 绝望
de-, 不，非，使相反。-spair, 希望，词源同speed, prosper. 即没有希望的，绝望。
英文词源
- despair
- despair: [14] Etymologically, despair is literally ‘lack of hope’. The word comes via Old French desperer from Latin dēspērāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē-, denoting reversal, and spērāre, a derivative of the noun spēs ‘hope’. Its past participle, dēspērātus, produced English desperate [15], from which desperado is a 17th-century mock-Spanish coinage.
=> desperate - despair (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French despeir, Old French despoir, from desperer (see despair (v.)). Replaced native wanhope.
- despair (v.)
- early 14c., from stem of Old French desperer "be dismayed, lose hope, despair," from Latin desperare "to despair, to lose all hope," from de- "without" (see de-) + sperare "to hope," from spes "hope" (see sperate). Related: Despaired; despairing; despairingly.
双语例句
- 1. Don't let yourself despair; this will only make matters worse.
- 不要想不开，这样只能使情况变得更糟。
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- 2. I would overcome any weakness, any despair, any fear.
- 我要克服所有的软弱、绝望和恐惧。
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- 3. As his energy drained away, his despair and worry grew.
- 当他的精力耗尽时，他的绝望和担心也增加了。
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- 4. I was in the depths of despair when the baby was sick.
- 孩子生病时我陷入了绝望的深渊之中。
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- 5. The night before the test I was overcome by fear and despair.
- 考试前的晚上，恐惧和绝望让我内心无比惊慌。
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