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despairing [dıˈspeərıŋ] ADJ

despairing
绝望的 juéwàngde
▶ despairingly ADV

I . despair [dıˈspeə] N

II . despair [dıˈspeə] VB intr (of)

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But she also artfully recorded her private thoughts, which could be joyful or despairing, playful or despondent.
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At the play's end, it burns, revealing a wall of suffering and despairing faces, then blossoms at its top in a huge chrysanthemum.
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I always saw funeral processions, coffins, unhappy and despairing people....
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He often represented his subjects as sad, despairing clowns.
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It was populated by a hungry, ill-housed, despairing tenancy.
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Despairing of seeing among the bonzes the light for which he was longing, he resolved to leave them.
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But despairing at the thought of becoming a full-time permanent factory worker led him back to school.
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Her biographers are indignant at the imputation that she died despairing.
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And in this despairing vision, neither does anyone else.
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The film is both shocking in its content and despairing in its ending.
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