词源

源自拉丁語 (“放弃”)，源自 (“从，离”) +‎ (“发誓”)。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/dɪˈspɒnd/

  • （英国）音频：

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• (罕用，名詞用法) 國際音標^(幫助)：/ˈdɛspɒnd/
• 斷字：de‧spond
• 韻部：-ɒnd

动词

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. 灰心，泄气，气馁
   • 1867, , , translation所著的原著，頁號 176:

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

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 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

(不可數)

1. (古舊) 灰心

   近義詞：

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