- 1心灰意冷的；意氣消沉的
If you are despondent, you are extremely unhappy and you have almost given up hope. This is stronger than sad, and heavier than disappointed: the feeling is that nothing you do will help, so your heart sinks and you stop trying. People become despondent after a long stretch of bad news — failing again and again, losing a job, a long illness, a plan that keeps falling apart. You can be despondent about one thing (your exam, your team, the future) or in a despondent mood more generally. It is a rather formal, written word. In everyday talk, especially among younger people, you are more likely to hear so sad, so down, or I've given up; despondent turns up in stories, news, and careful speech. It describes a feeling, not a loud action: a despondent person may sit quietly, speak softly, or just look worn out.
組成Does not split in a way English learners can see. From Latin dēspondēns, from the verb despondere, “to give up, to abandon” — so the picture inside the word is someone who has given up.
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- despondencythe noun: the heavy, hopeless feeling itself
- despondentlythe adverb: in a despondent way
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
despondentadj/dɪˈspɒndənt/
- 1
In low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
- Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
- “Last year, I was despondent that it was so hard to dislodge the iron grip of Google,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, who previously oversaw advertising for Google, including Search ads, and now runs Neeva. “But technological moments like this create an opportunity for more competition.”
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