despond

英语

词源

源自拉丁语 dēspondeō (“放弃”)，源自dē (“从，离”) +‎ spondeō (“发誓”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/dɪˈspɒnd/

  • （英国）音频

    （文档）

• (罕用、名词用法) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈdɛspɒnd/
• 断字：de‧spond
• 韵部：-ɒnd

动词

despond (第三人称单数简单现在时 desponds，现在分词 desponding，一般过去时及过去分词 desponded)

1. 灰心，泄气，气馁
   • 1867, John Conington, Aeneid, translationVirgil所著的原著，页号 176:

     Yet still despond not, but proceed
     Along the path where fate may lead.

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   • October 16, 1820, Thomas Scott, letter to the Rev. G. Knight, Harwell

     I should despair, or at least despond.

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     Others depress their own minds, [and] despond at the first difficulty.

   • June 17, 1825, Daniel Webster, Speech on the laying of the Corner Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument

     We wish that […] desponding patriotism may turn its eyes hitherward, and be assured that foundations of our national power still stand strong.

名词

despond (不可数)

1. (古旧) 灰心

   近义词： despondency

近义词

• despair

相关词汇

• slough of despond

异序词

• Spodden