despair是什么意思（despair的用法）

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一、despair是什么意思

1、despair 绝望

2、de-, 不，非，使相反。-spair, 希望，词源同speed, prosper. 即没有希望的，绝望。

二、despair的用法

1、despair

2、despair: [14] Etymologically, despair is literally ‘lack of hope’. The word comes via Old French desperer from Latin dēspērāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē-, denoting reversal, and spērāre, a derivative of the noun spēs ‘hope’. Its past participle, dēspērātus, produced English desperate [15], from which desperado is a 17th-century mock-Spanish coinage.=> desperate

3、despair (n.)

4、c. 1300, from Anglo-French despeir, Old French despoir, from desperer (see despair (v.)). Replaced native wanhope.

5、despair (v.)

6、early 14c., from stem of Old French desperer "be dismayed, lose hope, despair," from Latin desperare "to despair, to lose all hope," from de- "without" (see de-) + sperare "to hope," from spes "hope" (see sperate). Related: Despaired; despairing; despairingly.

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