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hopelessness

/hohp-lis-nis/US // ˈhoʊp lɪs nɪs //

无望,无助,无助感,失望

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the feeling or condition of having no hope; despair; desperation: Among the worst demons of addiction is hopelessness.

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Examples

  • Moise’s death is the culmination of years of lawlessness, frustration, and hopelessness in Haiti.

  • Feelings of hopelessness, anger, and depression, he found, were common.

  • More than a third of high school students in the United States experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness in 2019, a 40 percent increase since 2009.

  • “We share the fury, sadness and sense of hopelessness expressed by so many,” Neufeldt and Kemnitz wrote in the letter.

  • The third, the Beck Depression Inventory, is a 21-question survey that asks subjects to rate feelings like sadness, hopelessness, self-criticism and self-loathing on a zero to three scale.

  • Urban economists, particularly those on the self-satisfied coasts, tend to envision utter hopelessness for the region.

  • When I asked why he stayed as long as he did, James said hopelessness kept him hooked.

  • Future urbanization does not need to pose a choice between rural hopelessness and urban despair.

  • Some express a feeling of hopelessness and that their intractable sadness will never abate.

  • When the talks crashed, it created a sense of hopelessness that contributed to the environment in which the violence took place.

  • And so step by step the devil thrust him into desperation, and strove thereby to clinch the hopelessness of his estate.

  • It was one of the questions which arise out of great abysses from men who in their hopelessness still long for heaven.

  • Barrington's anger was quickly absorbed in the realization of the utter hopelessness of his position.

  • And as if in answer to their thoughts, the operator straightened, with a little gesture of hopelessness.

  • One listening could well believe the hopelessness of trying to make one of these girls marry against her will.