| 词组 | despondent |
| 释义 | despondent Simon 1980 makes the claim that despondent "can apply only to people." Wrong. It is usually applied to people, true, but there are a few instances in which it is not: • The house ... needed paint badly, and looked gloomy and despondent among its smart Queen Anne neighbors —Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915 • ... Mark Twain was filled with a despondent desire ... to stop writing altogether —Van Wyck Brooks, The Ordeal of Mark Twain, 1920 • The sonata is a wonderful instance of Bartôk's inspired enlargement of the gamut of sonorous effects. Its slow movement ... is more active than his characteristically despondent ones —Arthur Berger, Saturday Rev., 27 May 1950 • Over against the ecstatic apocalypse, in every prophetic tradition, there stands the despondent psalm —Frederick A. Pottle, PMLA, September 1952 • In the more despondent literatures of Europe — Times Literary Supp., 14 Nov. 1968 |
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