despond

英語

詞源

源自拉丁語 dēspondeō (「放棄」)，源自dē (「從，離」) +‎ spondeō (「發誓」)。

發音

• IPA^(幫助)：/dɪˈspɒnd/

  • （英國）音頻

    （文檔）

• (罕用、名詞用法) IPA^(幫助)：/ˈdɛspɒnd/
• 斷字：de‧spond
• 韻部：-ɒnd

動詞

despond (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 desponds，現在分詞 desponding，一般過去時及過去分詞 desponded)

1. 灰心，泄氣，氣餒
   • 1867, John Conington, Aeneid, translationVirgil所著的原著，頁號 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.

名詞

despond (不可數)

1. (古舊) 灰心

   近義詞： despondency

近義詞

• despair

相關詞彙

• slough of despond

異序詞

• Spodden