1.Afterward he sat despondently in front of his locker with his head in his hands in a pose that spoke for a season.
英:[dɪ'spɒndəntlɪ]
美:[dɪ'spɒndəntlɪ]
词根:despond
adj.despondent 沮丧的;失望的
n.despondency 泄气;意气消沉
despond 失去勇气;失望
despondence 沮丧;悲观;失望(等于despondency)
vi.despond 失去勇气;沮丧
Adverb
1. with desperation;
"`Why can't you understand?,' she asked despairingly"
gloomily, dejectedly
Latin despondent-, despondens, present participle of despondēre
The first known use of despondent was circa 1699
dessertnoun
a course of usually sweet food, fruit, or cheese usually served at the end of a meal
dessertnoun
a course of usually sweet food, fruit, or cheese usually served at the end of a meal
despotismnoun
rule by a despot : tyranny
a state or a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power
despotnoun
a ruler with absolute power and authority
a person who uses power in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way
despondverb
to become discouraged
despondentadjective
feeling quite discouraged or depressed : being in very low spirits
1.Afterward he sat despondently in front of his locker with his head in his hands in a pose that spoke for a season.
2."They will overpower you before he comes," Master Lindstrom answered despondently.
3.But, she added, despondently, "instead of looking after that, they are always after women".
4.Her son suggests she write in a candidate when she votes in November, but the 68-year-old says despondently, “I don’t even know who to write in.”
5.Set to live viola, the piece explores loneliness in fairly simplistic terms: As four dancers perform short movement phrases laced with attitude turns and head rolls, a fifth stares despondently into space.
6.“How am I going to go home?” one elderly man asked despondently into a phone.
7."I'm not sure I'll get a token today," he says despondently.
8.But for parents whose middle schoolers are miserable, who maybe aren’t doing any of that but are just staring despondently at their screens, they shouldn’t become something they use to bludgeon themselves.
9.Her character, distraught after being sexual assaulted in a motel, walks despondently into traffic.
10.He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor.
11.“It is a really bad situation. Many support the pro-Russian forces here. I don’t know how to fix this,” he said despondently.
12.A lonely sock searches despondently for a mate.
13.A slim, greying chap with his tail dragging despondently behind him, he subsists on a meagre diet of grass, roots and the occasional bird's egg.
14.The black man had been kicked out of school and begun despondently hoping to be killed and martyred for the civil rights cause.
15.Despondently, the boy asks, " Dad, can I go? "
孩子失望地问: " 爸, 我可以自己去 吗 ?
16.a group of despondent fans
17."We don't have a guard," Self said despondently.
18.But then she despondently walked to the bench after her second yellow card, and crouched down to stare at the turf in frustration.
19.Five of the captives shook their heads despondently when asked if they wanted to be interviewed by a foreign journalist.
20.Then he starts not rapping but ranting, less aggressively than despondently, about God knows what, while on Greyscale there's a ramble about "society" followed by a series of anguished growls.