in despair

基本解釋

He gave up the attempt in despair.
他在絕望中放棄了這種嘗試。
《新英漢大辭典》
The man seemed “psychologically at the end,” he said. “Icould hear him ramming his head against the wall in despair.
他說：“那個男人最后精神完全崩潰了，我能聽到他絕望地用頭撞墻的聲音。
No one around us was looking pale or green, wringing their hands in despair at the possibility of the plane crashing.
我們周圍沒有一個人因為飛機的可能墜毀而看上去面色蒼白或者鐵青，絕望地撮著手。

Residents in the area are in despair.
They were wandering in the forests and he was in despair, having lost everything.
他們在森林里流浪,那勒陷入絕望,他失去了一切
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節(jié)選
Mind you, he ascribes to authorial intention the most amazingly outrageous things that other critics threw up their hands in despair about, but nevertheless it is for him always still an appeal to authorial intention.
他認(rèn)為寫作意圖,十分重要,但是被其他批評家忽視了，但是寫作意圖,十分吸引他。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選

For some reason, however, he was in despair when he returned home that night.
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