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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her indignant and hopeless reverie was broken when the crowd began pushing back against the walls, the ladiescarefully holding their hoops so that no careless contact should turn them up against their bodies and show morepantalets than was proper.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I recalled the hopeless circumstances by which she had been surrounded in the miserable little shop and the miserable little noisy evening school, with that miserable old bundle of incompetence always to be dragged and shouldered.
-- Then, he melted into parental tenderness, and gave them a shilling apiece and told them to go and play; and then as they went out, with one very strong effort to lift himself up by the hair he dismissed the hopeless subject.
-- We had made some pale efforts in the beginning to applaud Mr. Wopsle; but they were too hopeless to be persisted in.
-- To my thinking, there was something in him that made it hopeless to attempt to disguise him.
-- The look-out was kept, long after all was still again and the two steamers were gone; but everybody knew that it was hopeless now.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hopeless labour!If he led them out of rooms where it was, if he shut up drawers and closets where it stood, if he drew the curious from places where he knew it to be secreted, and got them out into the streets, the very chimneys of the mills assumed that shape, and round them was the printed word.
-- I ha no favour for 'em I ha no reason to favour 'em but 'tis hopeless and useless to dream o' takin them fro their trade, 'stead o' takin their trade fro them!Aw that's now about me in this room were heer afore I coom, an' will be heer when I am gone.
-- 'It would be hopeless for me, Louisa, to endeavour to tell you how overwhelmed I have been, and still am, by what broke upon me last night.
-- May I be permitted to inquire, if you are charged to convey that information to me in those hopeless words, by the lady of whom we speak?'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Such were the last words which reached my anxious ears before I commenced my weary and almost hopeless journey.
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：
-- Clifford felt his father was a hopeless anachronism.
-- It stood on an eminence in a rather line old park of oak trees, but alas, one could see in the near distance the chim-ney of Tevershall pit, with its clouds of steam and smoke, and on the damp, hazy distance of the hill the raw straggle of Tevershall village, a village which began almost at the park gates, and trailed in utter hopeless ugliness for a long and gruesome mile: houses, rows of wretched, small, be-grimed, brick houses, with black slate roofs for lids, sharp angles and wilful, blank dreariness.
-- Michaelis had the ear of a few million people, probably; and, being a hopeless outsider, he would no doubt be grateful to be asked down to Wragby at this juncture, when the rest of the smart world was cutting him.
-- A kind of hopeless affection he seemed to feel for her, and the essential remoteness remained the same.
-- He was hopeless at the very core of him, and he wanted to be hopeless.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The irresolute fingers fluttered more and more ineffectually about the trembling lip on every such occasion, and the sharpest practitioners gave him up as a hopeless job.
-- 'Many people used to think once of getting my poor father out, but you don't know how hopeless it is.'
-- 'Would it be such hopeless work?
-- After some days of inquiry and research, Arthur Clennam became convinced that the case of the Father of the Marshalsea was indeed a hopeless one, and sorrowfully resigned the idea of helping him to freedom again.
-- The Little Dorrit, trembling on his arm, was less in unison than ever with Mrs Chivery's theory, and yet was not irreconcilable with a new fancy which sprung up within him, that there might be some one else in the hopeless newer fancy still in the hopeless unattainable distance.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She tried in a blind, hopeless way to do her duty, secretly rebelling against it all the while, for it seemed unjust that her few joys should be lessened, her burdens made heavier, and life get harder and harder as she toiled along.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
-- Think of that; by that sweet girl that old man has a child: hold ye then there can be any utter, hopeless harm in Ahab?
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