despair

🇬🇧/dɪˈspeə(r)/ 🇺🇸/dɪˈsper/📚 13989 74 2四级六级考研雅思
Despair is the feeling that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve. 绝望

noun [抽象名词]绝望;令人绝望的人或事

I looked at my wife in despair.
我绝望地看着妻子。

verb [vi. 不及物动词]绝望,丧失信心

If you despair, you feel that everything is wrong and that nothing will improve.
绝望 He abandoned himself to despair.

-spair- Sper = hope, 表示“希望”despair v. 绝望(de 去掉+spair [=sper 希望])
despair 出现在下面的课文中
Lesson 40 Food and talk despair 名词: 绝望
Lesson 7 Mutilated ladies*
Lesson 28 Five pounds too dear
Lesson 46 Do it yourself
Lesson 54 Instinct or cleverness?
单词造句:

绝望

despair n. 绝望, 失望, 令人失望的人(事物)

vi. 绝望

in despair 绝望的

  • sb./sth. is the despair of… ……让……感到绝望
  • The boy is the despair of his parents. 那男孩的父母对他感到绝望了。
  • This boy is his mother's despair. 这个男孩使他妈绝望了。
  • The examination was the despair of me. = The examination was my despair. 我对考试已经绝望了。

disappoint vt. 使失望