Despondency

(noun.) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless.

录入:普勒斯顿

• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• She thought with sickening despondency, that that friend--the only one, the one who had felt such a regard for her--was fallen away. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Meyler's spirits sunk into despondency: he actually shed tears, which, with him, was a very unusual event. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Miss Briggs and I are plunged in grief and despondency for the death of our Papa, Rebecca said. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She saw my despondency, and the aching cares of Idris. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• His recent despondency, not to say despair, was gone in a moment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• A desolate calm succeeded; and the middle of the week found him settled down in the despondency of low, slow fever. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Somehow, I found that I had taken leave of Traddles for the night, and come back to the coffee-house, with a great change in my despondency about him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Ponsonby answered that I was very good; but in the greatest despondency. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• My grief seemed now to settle in deep despondency. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• All this she saw with the clearness of vision that came to her in moments of despondency. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I've been a-thinking,' said Mr Boffin, in a tone of despondency, 'that I must keep the knowledge from my old lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Oh, that would not do--that would be worse than anything, she said with a more childlike despondency, while the tears rolled down. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• When this despondency was at its worst, I believed that I should die. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• With this expression of feeling for his unfortunate friend, Master Bates sat himself on the nearest chair with an aspect of chagrin and despondency. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.

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