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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thanks to his taste for languages, he did not despair of being able to speak the language fluently when they arrived at Concepcion.
-- On the 17th they set out in the usual line of march, a line which it was hard work for Robert to keep, his ardor constantly compelled him to get ahead of the MADRINA, to the great despair of his mule.
-- As for Glenarvan, he was in absolute despair when he heard of his disappearance, and pictured to himself the child lying in some deep abyss, wildly crying for succor.
-- His despair was terrible.
-- Thalcave said nothing, thinking probably, that it would be time enough to despair if the Guamini should be dried up—if, indeed, the heart of an Indian can ever despair.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was said that when Gania entered the prince's room, he came with anything but friendly feelings, and in a condition of despair and misery; but that after a short conversation, he had stayed on for a couple of hours with him, sobbing con-tinuously and bitterly the whole time.
-- Despair overmastered his soul; he would not go on, he would go back to his hotel; he even turned and went the other way; but a moment after he changed his mind again and went on in the old direction.
-- When I woke up at half-past seven and tore my hair in despair for my loss and carelessness, I awoke the general, who was sleeping the sleep of innocence near me.
-- He was almost in despair when Colia arrived with the hedge-hog.
-- It and its brother Atheism proceed from Despair in opposition to Catholicism.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The despair of Mr. Marvel's face deepened, and his pace slackened.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a passion of despair I struck with my fists at the water in the bottom of the boat, and kicked savagely at the gunwale.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Amy pro-tested that she would not go, and Meg left her in despair to ask Hannah what should be done.
-- If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on, in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew, and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor, and cast upon the floor.
-- Her story was as full of des-peration and despair as her limited acquaintance with those uncomfortable emotions enabled her to make it, and hav-ing located it in Lisbon, she wound up with an earthquake, as a striking and appropriate denouement.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- What bitter blanks in those black-bordered marbles which cover no ashes!What despair in those immovable inscriptions!What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.
-- Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
-- As the frantic old man thus spoke and thus trampled with his live and dead feet, a sneering triumph that seemed meant for Ahab, and a fatalistic despair that seemed meant for himself these passed over the mute, motionless Parsee's face.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However, as I had learned not to despair of anything, I re-solved to pull everything to pieces that I could of the ship, concluding that everything I could get from her would be of some use or other to me.
-- It is scarcely possible to imagine the consternation I was now in, being driven from my beloved island (for so it appeared to me now to be) into the wide ocean, almost two leagues, and in the utmost despair of ever recovering it again.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is yet too early in life to despair of such a happiness.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then in despair he got out his purse.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In despair he let it alone.
-- I leave you to think of the terrible grief, the shame, the despair of the poor Marionette.
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