despond

常見例句

Well, you dropped Linton with it into a slough of despond.
好呀，你把林惇和這樣的消遣一起丟入了‘絕望的深淵’啦。
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We were in the Slough of Despond tonight, and Mother came and pulled us out as Help did in the book. We ought to have our roll of directions, like Christian.
我們今晚本來処於'絕望的深淵'，媽媽像書中的'幫助'一樣來把我們拉了出去，我們應(yīng)該像基督教徒一樣有幾本指導(dǎo)手冊。
But even by their usual gloomy standards, Britons seem to have got themselves into a slough of despond of late.
但即便依據(jù)英國人正常的悲觀標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的話，最近英國人似乎陷入了絕望的境地。

That period of exuberance followed a long stretch in the 1970s and 1980s when investors were in a slough of despond.
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As the overblown optimism wears off and the hopes of JK Rowling-like status evaporate, so the slough of despond will take a hold.
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Still, it seems unlikely that either Mr Thompson or Mr Huckabee possesses the necessary heft to pull their party out of the slough of despond.
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