despond
英语
编辑词源
编辑源自拉丁語 dēspondeō (“放弃”),源自dē (“从,离”) + spondeō (“发誓”)。
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编辑despond (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 desponds,現在分詞 desponding,一般過去時及過去分詞 desponded)
- 灰心,泄气,气馁
- 1867, John Conington, Aeneid, 根據Virgil原著改編的翻譯作品,第 176 頁:
- Yet still despond not, but proceed
Along the path where fate may lead.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- October 16, 1820, Thomas Scott, letter to the Rev. G. Knight, Harwell
- I should despair, or at least despond.
- Template:RQ:Locke Conduct
- Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.
- June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument
- We wish that […] desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.
名词
编辑despond (不可數)
- (古舊) 灰心
- 近義詞:despondency