hopeless是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 没有希望的， 绝望的，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：
-- The uncontrol-lable and hopeless mass of decomposition so engendered, would have polluted the air, even if poverty and depriva-tion had not loaded it with their intangible impurities; the two bad sources combined made it almost insupportable.
-- So expressive it was, of a hopeless and lost creature, that 55a famished traveller, wearied out by lonely wandering in a wilderness, would have remembered home and friends in such a tone before lying down to die.
-- Charles Darnay felt it hopeless to entreat him further, and his pride was touched besides.
-- To appeal to her, was made hopeless by her having no sense of pity, even for herself.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They respected each other, but were in complete and hopeless disagreement upon almost every subject, not because they belonged to opposite parties, but precisely because they were of the same party (their enemies refused to see any distinction between their views); but, in that party, each had his own special shade of opinion.
-- Bad as this might be, it was anyway better than a rupture, which would put her in a hopeless and shameful position, and deprive him of everything he cared for.
-- "Awful!It's a hopeless case!"
-- If his wife had then, on declaring to him her unfaithfulness, left him, he would have been wounded, unhappy, but he would not have been in the hopeless position--incomprehensible to himself--in which he felt himself now.
-- Alexey Alexandrovitch did not merely fail to observe his hopeless position in the official world, he was not merely free from anxiety on this head, he was positively more satisfied than ever with his own activity.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His voice rose, and in it was all the tragedy of night watches and black draughts and hopeless retreats. "
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 she was left at his death with three children in a wild and remote district where I happened to be at the time; and she was left in such hopeless poverty that, although I have seen many ups and downs of all sort, I don't feel equal to describing it even.
-- You yourself, mademoiselle, probably will not refuse to confirm my state-ment that I invited you through Mr. Lebeziatnikov, solely in order to discuss with you the hopeless and destitute po-sition of your relative, Katerina Ivanovna (whose dinner I was unable to attend), and the advisability of getting up something of the nature of a subscription, lottery or the like, for her benefit.
-- There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a fore-taste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity 'on a square yard of space.'
-- It was a hopeless tangle.
-- And the hopeless misery and anxiety of all that time, especial-734 Crime and Punishmently of the last hours, had weighed so heavily upon him that he positively clutched at the chance of this new unmixed, complete sensation.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It informed me of her husband's hopeless state,and hinted at his being 'a little nearer' than heretofore, andconsequently more difficult to manage for his own comfort.
-- Being very anxious to leave no stone unturned, I waited until Mr.Spenlow came in, and then described what had passed; giving himto understand that I was not hopeless of his being able to soften theadamantine Jorkins, if he would undertake the task.
-- Byimperceptible degrees, it became a hopeless consciousness of allthat I had lost- love, friendship, interest; of all that had beenshattered- my first trust, my first affection, the whole airy castle ofmy life; of all that remained- a ruined blank and waste, lying widearound me, unbroken to the dark horizon.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Never was such a hopeless man for a woman!He's been courted by sixes and sevens all the girls, gentle and simple, for miles round, have tried him.
-- At length she said, in a sort of hopeless whisper "Very well, then, I will to-night, if you wish it so earnestly.
-- She was aggrieved and wounded that the possession of hopeless love from Gabriel, which she had grown to regard as her inalienable right for life, should have been withdrawn just at his own pleasure in this way.
-- There, that's what 'tis, and now I've told 'ee, Mother Tall, in a way I shouldn't ha' done if I hadn't loved 'ee so hopeless well."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'How kind and generous you are!every one else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched, for I knew that it was impossible: and to see every one else prejudiced in so deadly a manner rendered me hopeless and despairing.'
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Life was a hopeless affair and certainly not worth living.
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