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。
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He walked up and down, and despair mingled with his emotion.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.
-- His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
-- I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
-- Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving new from my friends.
-- I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words can-not convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She was shiningblack, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her threedaughters, the terror of the other house servants.
-- Moreover, there was a haunting look of despair about her that went to his heart and made him more gentle withher than he had ever been with any person in all the world.
-- Scarlett had wept with despair at the knowledge that she waspregnant and wished that she were dead.
-- Scarlett had thrown herself on the bed and was sobbing at the top of her voice, sobbing for her lost youth and thepleasures of youth that were denied her, sobbing with the indignation and despair of a child who once could getanything she wanted by sobbing and now knows that sobbing can no longer help her.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Wopsle, united to a Roman nose and a large shining bald forehead, had a deep voice which he was uncommonly proud of; indeed it was understood among his acquaintance that if you could only give him his head, he would read the clergyman into fits; he himself confessed that if the Church was "thrown open," meaning to competition, he would not despair of making his mark in it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: but when they perceived the whole fleet moving in order, and saw me pulling at the end, they set up such a scream of grief and despair as it is almost impossible to de-scribe or conceive.
-- I was struck with the utmost grief and despair at my master's discourse; and being unable to support the agonies I was under, I fell into a swoon at his feet.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The wide prospect, so beautiful in its stillness but a few minutes ago, almost carried despair to her brave heart, as she rose and looked all round her, seeing no help.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- To describe the horrible state of despair and fear into which I then fell would now be vain and impossible.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she could feel the black void of despair inside him.
-- That was the death of all desire, the death of all love: this despair that was like the dark cave inside the men, in which their spirit was lost.
-- Despair seemed to come down on him completely, and she was feeling happy, she hated despair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Little Dorrit, shaking her head with the mild despair of a lifetime.
-- But her gentle breast had been so deeply wounded by what she had seen of him that she was unwilling to leave him alone, lest he should lament and despair again.
-- This reminds me that I have not been able to do so, and that I sometimes almost despair of ever being able to do so.
-- 'Dear Madam, 'I am in despair to be informed to-day by our prisoner here (who has had the goodness to employ spies to seek me, living for politic reasons in retirement), that you have had fears for my safety.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- wailed Meg, looking with despair at the uneven frizzle on her forehead.
-- A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she'd come to dinner.
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