心裡的燈滅了
最貼近核心的一層：真的在描述「一個人感覺沒有希望」的心情與神態。
showing no hope · r · C2
In a way that shows you feel you have no hope.
絕望地
核心畫面
A way to hold it: hope is the small light that says "this could still get better." Hopelessly is doing or being something with that light switched off — no way back, no fixing it.
hope 是心裡那盞小燈，燈亮著就表示「還有轉圜、還可能變好」。hopelessly 就是那盞燈滅了的樣子——事情走…更多收起
hope 是心裡那盞小燈，燈亮著就表示「還有轉圜、還可能變好」。hopelessly 就是那盞燈滅了的樣子——事情走到這裡，沒有回頭路、也修不好了。有趣的是，這個「沒救了」後來被拿去形容各種程度：迷路迷到沒救、亂到沒救、愛到沒救，語氣可以很沉重，也可以帶點誇張的自嘲。Three branches
沒救了的程度
從「心裡沒希望」轉去形容「事情本身沒希望」：說一件事 hopelessly 如何，等於說它壞到／偏到沒有補救空間，於是這個字順勢變成一個很重的「完全、徹底」。
completely, hopelessly badly · r · C2
Completely, in a way that shows how bad something is and that it will not get better.
毫無希望地
愛到停不下來
同樣是「沒救了」，但用在感情上時整個色彩翻轉：無法自拔在這裡不是災難，而是一種甘願的沉溺。
uncontrollably (in love) · r · C2
With a love so strong that you cannot stop it or change it.
無可救藥地
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
hopelesslyadv/ˈhoʊplɪsli/
- 1
In a manner showing no hope
- The whole covey of victims was thus netted; the household ruin was thus full and orbicular; and in that proportion the tendency of men and women, flutter as they might, would be helplessly and hopelessly to sink into the all-conquering hands of the mighty murderer.
- Crouch had earlier hopelessly miskicked an excellent volleyed chance from eight yards out after a delightful Pennant cross.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。