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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It is both a provoking and hopeless business," replied Glenarvan.
-- He advised its adoption, as it was hopeless to await the problematical arrival of a vessel in Twofold Bay.
-- Paganel tried to beguile the time with his stories, but it was a hopeless case.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed hopeless to pursue the inquiry any farther, but it was clear that in spite of Holmes's ruse we had no proof that Barrymore had not been in London all the time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But what I especially noticed was this, that the very most hopeless and remorseless murderer however hardened a criminal he may be still KNOWS THAT HE IS A CRIM-INAL; that is, he is conscious that he has acted wickedly, though he may feel no remorse whatever.
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：
-- From that moment the yells in the forest once more ceased, the fire was suffered to decline, and all eyes, those of friends as well as enemies, became fixed on the hopeless condition of the wretch who was dangling between heaven and earth.
-- That portion of the band who had followed the huge warrior took the route to-ward the foot of the Horican, and no other expectation was left for himself and companions, than that they were to be retained as hopeless captives by their savage conquerors.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans, it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet.
-- But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things!Of erections, how few are domed like St. Peter's!of creatures, how few vast as the whale!
-- And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Jew saw that it would be hopeless to affect any further mistake regarding the reality of Miss Nancy's rage; and, shrinking involuntarily back a few paces, cast a glance, half imploring and half cowardly, at Sikes: as if to hint that he was the fittest person to pursue the dialogue.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth had heard soon after her arrival that Mr. Darcy was expected there in the course of a few weeks, and though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley's designs on him were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently des-tined by Lady Catherine, who talked of his coming with the greatest satisfaction, spoke of him in terms of the highest admiration, and seemed almost angry to find that he had already been frequently seen by Miss Lucas and herself.
-- They were hopeless of remedy.
-- You will easily comprehend, from these particulars, that Mr. Wickham's circumstances are not so hopeless as they are generally believed to be.
-- She counted the days that must intervene before their invitation could be sent; hopeless of seeing him before.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an inexpressible joy to me, which any one will be-lieve, that I was thus delivered, as I esteemed it, from such a miserable and almost hopeless condition as I was in; and I immediately offered all I had to the captain of the ship, as a return for my deliverance; but he generously told me he would take nothing from me, but that all I had should be delivered safe to me when I came to the Brazils.
-- I looked frequently at it all that day, and soon perceived that it did not move; so I presently concluded that it was a ship at anchor; and being eager, you may be sure, to be satisfied, I took my gun in my hand, and ran towards the south side of the island to the rocks where I had formerly been carried away by the current; and getting up there, the weather by this time being perfectly clear, I could plainly see, to my great sorrow, the wreck of a ship, cast away in the night upon those concealed rocks which I found when I was out in my boat; and which rocks, as they checked the violence of the stream, and made a kind of counter-stream, or eddy, were the occasion of my recovering from the most desperate, hopeless condition that ever I had been in in all my life.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elinor had often wished for an opportunity of attempting to weaken her mother's dependence on the attachment of Edward and herself, that the shock might be less when the whole truth were revealed, and now on this attack, though almost hopeless of success, she forced herself to begin her design by saying, as calmly as she could, "I like Edward Ferrars very much, and shall always be glad to see him; but as to the rest of the family, it is a matter of perfect indifference to me, whether I am ever known to them or not."
-- Determined not to quit Marianne, though hopeless of contributing, at present, to her ease, she hurried away to excuse herself from attending Mrs. Jennings, on account of her sister being indisposed.
-- Whatever they may have been, however, she may now, and hereafter doubtless WILL turn with gratitude towards her own condition, when she compares it with that of my poor Eliza, when she considers the wretched and hopeless situation of this poor girl, and pictures her to herself, with an affection for him so strong, still as strong as her own, and with a mind tormented by self-reproach, which must attend her through life.
-- The preferment, which only two days before she had considered as hopeless for Edward, was already provided to enable him to marry; and SHE, of all people in the world, was fixed on to bestow it! Her emotion was such as Mrs. Jennings had attributed to a very different cause; but whatever minor feelings less pure, less pleasing, might have a share in that emotion, her esteem for the general benevolence, and her gratitude for the particular friendship, which together prompted Colonel Brandon to this act, were strongly felt, and warmly expressed.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That hopeless example had fallen under the lance of the director's criticism.
-- She was more hopeless than Mrs. Morgan, who had recovered somewhat, and was now saying her lines clearly at least.
-- As a matter of fact, she was in a most hopeless quandary.
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