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：
-- I had her but a single year, though; a short term of happiness for one who had seen her youth fade in hopeless pining.'
-- He was watched in all his movements by Heyward, who, however, remained firm, still folding the fragile form of Alice to his heart, at once too proud and too hopeless to ask favor of an enemy so often foiled.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At length, he gave the matter up, as hopeless for that night, and suddenly breaking into a run as though to force himself away, scampered off at his utmost speed, nor once ventured to look behind him lest he should be tempted back again.
-- There was the same thick air, difficult to breathe; the same blighted ground, the same hopeless prospect, the same misery and distress.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In his face and eyes was an expression of hopeless anguish.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was bewildered; it seemed a thing so hopeless he was asking he, the old buccaneer, the ringleader throughout.
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：
-- Others would live on, and know the living death, the ensuing process of hopeless chaos.
-- It was hopeless to keep it up.
-- "The only hopeless thing is a fool."
-- Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation.
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