单词 | desperation |
释义 | des·per·a·tion 1. < disillusionment and disgust may become desperation — Times Literary Supplement > : a loss or abandonment of hope and surrender to misery or dread < he shivered with fear and with cold, and a desperation began to possess him — Farley Mowat > also < the very desperation of this dire need for some glimpse into that darkness which is the future — F.L.Mott > 2. < with all the desperation of a fox caught by wire netting in a fowl run — J.C.Powys > < she had had the courage of desperation, and that had saved her from failure — Ellen Glasgow > |
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