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。
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was then that Ba-gheera lifted up his dripping chin, and in despair gave the Snake's Call for protection 'We be of one blood, ye and I' for he believed that Kaa had turned tail at the last min-ute.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The body yielded to the currents of air, and though no mur-mur or groan escaped the victim, there were instants when he grimly faced his foes, and the anguish of cold despair might be traced, through the intervening distance, in pos-session of his swarthy lineaments.
-- At instants of momentary wakefulness he mistook a bush for his associ-ate sentinel; his head next sank upon his shoulder, which, in its turn, sought the support of the ground; and, finally, his whole person became relaxed and pliant, and the young man sank into a deep sleep, dreaming that he was a knight of ancient chivalry, holding his midnight vigils before the tent of a recaptured princess, whose favor he did not despair of gaining, by such a proof of devotion and watchfulness.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Stroeve went twice a day to the hospital to enquire after his wife, who still declined to see him; and came away at first relieved and hopeful because he was told that she seemed to be growing better, and then in despair because, the complication which the doctor had feared having ensued, recovery was impossible.
-- But it is unfortunate that I can give no description of the arduous steps by which he reached such mastery over his art as he ever acquired; for if I could show him undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy, I might excite some sympathy for a personality which, I am all too conscious, must appear singularly devoid of charm.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Neb shed bitter tears, giving way to despair at the thought of having lost the only being he loved on earth.
-- exclaimed Herbert, "do you despair of ever seeing him again?"
-- Despair had completely changed his countenance.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This done, she begged them in a kind of deep despair to drink; then laughed, then cried, then took a little sip herself, then laughed and cried again, and took a little more; and so, by degrees, the worthy lady went on, increasing in smiles and decreasing in tears, until at last she could not laugh enough at Miss Monflathers, who, from being an object of dire vexation, became one of sheer ridicule and absurdity.
-- The single gentleman started back, and gazed upon the face of the late Mrs Jarley (that morning wedded to the philosophic George, to the eternal wrath and despair of Mr Slum the poet), with looks of conflicting apprehension, disappointment, and incredulity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nekhludoff, after the impressions of his stay in St. Petersburg, was almost in despair of ever reaching any results.
-- he asked himself, and, being unable to find answers to these questions, he was stricken with such sadness and despair as he had rarely experienced before, and he fell into that deep slumber which had been habitual with him after heavy losses at cards.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have a memory of horrible fatigue, as the long night of despair wore away; of looking in this impossible place and that; of groping among moonlit ruins and touching strange creatures in the black shadows; at last, of lying on the ground near the sphinx and weeping with absolute wretchedness, even anger at the folly of leaving the machine having leaked away with my strength.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They had set me with my back against the wall, and I stood there, looking Silver in the face, pluckily enough, I hope, to all outward appearance, but with black despair in my heart.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Friend Ned, I do not despair of this stout Nautilus, as you do; and in four days we shall know what to hold to on the Pacific tides.
-- "Let us see," I continued; "we need not despair yet.
-- Despair seized me for an instant; my pickaxe nearly fell from my hands.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She hated him in a despair that shattered her and broke her down, so that she suffered sheer dissolution like a corpse, and was unconscious of everything save the horrible sickness of dissolution that was taking place within her, body and soul.
-- SUNDAY EVENINGAs the day wore on, the life-blood seemed to ebb away from Ursula, and within the emptiness a heavy despair gathered.
-- It seemed there was wild despair in her voice.
-- "But need you despair over Gerald?"
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