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hopelessly

/hohp-lis/US // ˈhoʊp lɪs //UK // (ˈhəʊplɪs) //

无望地,无可奈何地,无望的,无助地

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
    • : without hope; despairing: hopeless grief.
    • : impossible to accomplish, solve, resolve, etc.: Balancing my budget is hopeless.
    • : not able to learn or act, perform, or work as desired; inadequate for the purpose: As a bridge player, you're hopeless.

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Examples

  • When you’re under stress and feel hopeless, it’s more likely that these conflicts spiral into violence.

  • Helpless, hopeless, despondent, all sorts of sad emotions in the English language that you can think of.

  • While it may feel hopeless to see all of this unfold, just remember that you can still take responsibility in securing the health of yourself and the people you love.

  • Nothing formally came of it, but one of the men, the pro-democracy economist Fouad Abdelmoumni, says his friends high up at the agency told him the letter was hopeless and urged him to drop the matter.

  • Despite the result of this vote, the situation is not entirely hopeless in “Europe’s last dictatorship”.

  • Society itself must be changed, right out from under our hopeless cases.

  • These formations streamed from Rwanda with the same hopeless shuffle as they did from Bosnia and now as they do from Syria.

  • Inside, it seemed hopeless, for every chair in sight was occupied, and a dozen men were asleep on the floor.

  • Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.

  • The Economist cover in 2000 dubbed it “The Hopeless Continent,” with a photo of a grinning, heavily armed soldier.

  • The conflict of these certainties left hopeless disorder in every corner of his being.

  • As the hopeless wish passed through his soul, the iron entered with it, but did not pass away.

  • His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him.

  • The Austrian parlementaire pointed out that it was hopeless to continue the struggle as he had neither provisions nor ammunition.

  • It was not a condition of life which fitted her, and she could see in it but an appalling and hopeless ennui.