单词 | hopeless |
释义 | hope·less 1. a. (1) < girls feel hopeless if they haven't a marriage at least in sight — Sidonie M. Gruenberg > < three lonely and hopeless old women — Upton Sinclair > < was never hopeless of anybody — Margaret Deland > (2) < gazed with lusterless, hopeless eyes — Jack London > b. < should be aware of his responsibility if he declares a … patient hopeless — Journal American Medical Association > c. < the dream of every magazine writer who is not a hopeless hack — Raymond Chandler > < as an actor he is really hopeless > < a hopeless extrovert, giving herself completely and trustingly to everyone — Holiday > < a hopeless Anglophile — Richard Joseph > 2. a. < the situation looked hopeless indeed — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > b. < a hopeless task > < had a hopeless jumble of papers on my hands — Phoenix Flame > < the detective … whose redemption is hopeless — B.N.Cardozo > < worked at depths that seemed hopeless fifty years ago — Waldemar Kaempffert > < in hopeless conflict with religion — R.W.Murray > < lucidity hopeless to find amid all the cluttering detail of advanced works — Geographical Journal > Synonyms: see despondent |
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