Hopeless

(adj.) (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; 'she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers'; 'he is a hopeless romantic' .

(adj.) without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; 'in an agony of hopeless grief'; 'with a hopeless sigh he sat down' .

(adj.) certain to fail; 'the situation is hopeless' .

(adj.) of a person unable to do something skillfully; 'I'm hopeless at mathematics' .

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• My rescue from this kind of existence I considered quite hopeless, and abandoned, as such, altogether. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I don't even blame you--I pity you for opening your heart to a hopeless affection. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The case is hopeless. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I copied as quickly as I could, but at nine o'clock I had only done nine articles, and it seemed hopeless for me to attempt to catch my train. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Now, was there some one in the hopeless unattainable distance? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• In that, he could not be defended; but if he had injured her, how much more had he injured himself; if her case were pitiable, his was hopeless. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Still, to get to Egypt, was something, in the eyes of the unfortunate colonists, hopeless as the prospect seemed of ever getting further. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If what is good in the world depended on our ability to define it we should be hopeless indeed. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The cruellest looks could not have wounded him more than that glance of hopeless kindness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I saw it was hopeless and useless to speak, and I only put my arm round her, and held her to me in silence. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Mr. Dawson very unwillingly made the concession required of him--I think he saw that it was hopeless to dispute with her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged on for months past? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Because it was so endless, so hopeless. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• At one while my journey looked hopeful, and at another hopeless. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In a less critical situation the effort need not have been given up as hopeless even yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They nearly shook my mind; relief was so hopeless, redress so unattainable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• At what time of the night he had gone, or how, or why, it seemed hopeless ever to divine. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Fish on his return from St. Louis, after he had argued the Edison side, he felt keenly that disadvantage, to say nothing of the hopeless difficulty of educating the court. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Although it seemed a well-nigh hopeless task, he entered upon the investigation with his usual optimism and vim. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I feel such a despair, so hopeless, as if it were the end of the world. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• After passing several hours, we returned hopeless, most of my companions believing it to have been a form conjured by my fancy. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• It was useless and hopeless. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• They were hopeless of remedy. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• It is a picture of hopeless drudgery and blank ignorance. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Such people there are living and flourishing in the world--Faithless, Hopeless, Charityless: let us have at them, dear friends, with might and main. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Oh, my dear, he returned with a hopeless gesture. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I did not care to spend more money in a hopeless attempt at recovering them. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• And of course it is hopeless. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• No wonder that in Lydgate's energetic nature the sense of a hopeless misconstruction easily turned into a dogged resistance. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Only she wept from fathomless depths of hopeless, hopeless grief, the terrible grief of a child, that knows no extenuation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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