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unhoped-for

/uhn-hohpt-fawr/US // ʌnˈhoʊptˌfɔr //UK // (ˌʌnˈhəʊptfɔː) //

无望的,无希望的,无望,无希望

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : unexpected; unanticipated: an unhoped-for piece of good luck.

Examples

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.

  • Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.

  • Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.

  • Will Christian pharmacists, county clerks, florists, and for-profit wedding chapels really withdraw from society, as you describe?

  • The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.

  • At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.

  • Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.

  • But no other instance of for-tened is known, nor yet of crece as short for increes (increase).

  • At length the long looked-for copy arrived, he saw it, composed himself and died, 1543.