- The next opening of the door brought something more welcome: it was for the tea-things, which she had begun almost to despair of seeing that evening. - 门又一次打开的时候,送来了较为受人欢迎的东西:茶具。她几乎开始绝望了,觉得那天晚上不会送茶具来了。 
- Troy still held out, and the Greeks began to despair of even subduing it by force, and by advice of Ulysses resolved to resort to stratagem. - 特洛伊城坚不可摧,希腊人开始对用武力攻破它失去信心,他们在尤里西斯的建议下,决定采用计谋。 
- I was beginning to despair of my chances - and then I ran in to Howard Lutnick. - 一开始我感到机会渺茫,直到我遇见霍华德·鲁特尼克。 
- When you come to a point where you want to live like a plant, fully unconscious, then you have come to despair of humanity. - 当你无路可退到想像植物一般活着,完全没有意识,那时你对人性已经绝望了。 
- You have nothing to despair of a woman, a woman of despair before you trouble. - 你对女人绝望没事,女人对你绝望才麻烦。