Despond

(verb.) lose confidence or hope; become dejected; 'The supporters of the Presidential candidate desponded when they learned the early results of the election'.

整理:诺里斯

• My search was utterly vain, yet I did not despond. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• We were in the Slough of Despond tonight, and Mother came and pulled us out as Help did in the book. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Don't despond, said Carton, very gently; don't grieve. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• According to her, I was born only to work for a piece of bread, to await the pains of death, and steadily through all life to despond. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The name of the slough was Despond. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Not her father's desponding attitude had power to damp her now. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But you, my dear Frankenstein, wherefore are you desponding and sorrowful? 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I wonder the writs haven't followed me down here, Rawdon continued, still desponding. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He and Mrs. Weston were both dreadfully desponding. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Dorothea was not only his wife: she was a personification of that shallow world which surrounds the appreciated or desponding author. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• And as for the vague something--was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding expression? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• At last he stopped right opposite to Margaret, and looked at her drooping and desponding attitude for an instant. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• I became the victim of ingratitude and cold coquetry--then I desponded, and imagined that my discontent gave me a right to hate the world. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He still seemed to me most absurd when he obstinately doubted, and desponded about his power to win in the end Miss Fanshawe's preference. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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