despair是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. /vi. 绝望, 丧失信心，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Sydney, I rather despair of making myself intelligible to you, because you are such an insensible dog.
-- He came to her relief with a fixed despair of himself which made the interview unlike any other that could have been holden.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But after spending two months alone in the country, he was convinced that this was not one of those passions of which he had had experience in his early youth; that this feeling gave him not an instant's rest; that he could not live without deciding the question, would she or would she not be his wife, and that his despair had arisen only from his own imaginings, that he had no sort of proof that he would be rejected.
-- But before the mazurka, when they were beginning to rearrange the chairs and a few couples moved out of the smaller rooms into the big room, a moment of despair and horror came for Kitty.
-- But, noticing that Kitty only responded to her smile by a look of despair and amazement, she turned away from her, and began gaily talking to the other lady.
-- "But I should be in despair if there were anything serious in it on his side," Anna interrupted her.
-- "The despair you were unable to conceal at the accident to one of the riders."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A description of him was easily procured and sent to the detectives; and some hopeful spirits, of whom Ralph was one, did not despair of his apprehension.
-- Mr. Fogg applied in vain to the French and English consuls, and, after wandering through the streets a long time, began to despair of finding his missing servant.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as though in despair he laid his head down on the table.
-- 'He's drunk it!he's drunk it all,' the poor woman screamed in despair 'and his clothes are gone!And they are hungry, hungry!
-- I was in despair myself, but what could I do?
-- Filled with despair he went straight to meet them, feel-ing 'come what must!'
-- he screamed, with such bitter irritation, such despair in his eyes that Razumi-hin's hands dropped.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have never known what despair was,except in the tone of those words.
-- I confess that I began to despair of herrecovery, and gradually to sink deeper and deeper into the beliefthat she was dead.
-- 'ThatMrs. Steerforth might not be induced to look behind her, and read,plainly written, what she was not yet prepared to know, I met herlook quickly; but I had seen Rosa Dartle throw her hands up in theair with vehemence of despair and horror, and then clasp them onher face.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I need not so totally despair of an equal alliance, as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith! No, madam, my visits to Hartfield have been for yourself only; and the en-couragement I received ' 'Encouragement! I give you encouragement! Sir, you have been entirely mistaken in supposing it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he persisted, standing still at last in despair of ever reaching her, and facing over the bush.
-- This was recognized by all as the conclusion of some gloomy speech which had been expressed in thought alone during the shake of the head; Henery meanwhile retained several marks of despair upon his face, to imply that they would be required for use again directly he should go on speaking.
-- Just as that imperceptible motion which appears like stillness is infinitely divided in its properties from stillness itself, so had his hope undistinguishable from despair differed from despair indeed.
-- At these words there arose from Bathsheba's lips a long, low cry of measureless despair and indignation, such a wail of anguish as had never before been heard within those old-inhabited walls.
-- Sudden despair had transformed him.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely a clever and high-spirited young man, whose wit and courage were set off to advantage by a graceful figure and the vigorous kind of beauty that readily strikes a woman's imagination, need not despair of finding a protectress.
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