…and this sight of her leaning like a helpless, despairing creature against a wild wet bank, filled him with an amazed horror

…现在她像一个无依无靠、绝望灰心的人一样，在一块荒凉、潮湿的土堤上靠着，叫他见了，又惊又怕。

She looked wretched and forlorn, despairing of the arrival of a friend who had promised to meet her.

她看上去又可怜又孤独，对于答应来看她的朋友的到来已不抱希望。

She flashed him a despairing glance.

她向他投以绝望的眼光。

A despairing cry escaped the pale lips of Mercds; the old man sank into a chair

美塞苔丝绝望地惨叫了一声，而心碎的老人则气息奄奄地倒在了一张椅子上。

With a despairing cry the woman banged her head against the wall.

随着一声绝望的呼叫,那女人把头往墙上猛撞。

He received the news with a despairing sigh.

他得到消息,绝望地叹了口气。

his father died poor, despairing , almost doubtful of providence

他的父亲却死在穷苦、绝望、怀疑之中。

He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to Fantine’s despairing supplications

他关好门，靠在门上，听到了芳汀的哀求。

He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a star

他总设法去慰藉失望的人，使他们能退一步着想，使俯视墓穴的悲痛转为仰望星光的悲痛。

Are we not two despairing creatures?

我们难道不是两个绝望的人吗?

With shame and grief he dared no longer look towards that heaven where his father lived. His darkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing effort, he burst out a cry: “Come back, my early days! Come back!”

羞愧和忧伤使他再了不敢正视他父亲所在的天堂。他双眼无神，饱含着泪水，在绝望中，他奋力高喊:“回来吧，我那逝去的岁月!回来吧!”

But the days succeeded each other with despairing monotony

一天一天就这样枯燥无味地过去了。

||1:He never forgot to be dignified, though.||2:Perhaps this was why Albanians liked him.||3:Higher-ups (and his world was entirely full of higher-ups) could treat Little Norm with contempt, but he would triumph somehow.||4:He would walk on their grass, turn his hose on their tailored backs, or tip the entire navy top brass over the rail and into the sea.||5:He was as good as they were.||6:Scruffy he might be, with tie askew and too-short trousers, but he was not a tramp.||7:And though barked at by his superiors, especially the despairing Mr Grimsdale, he would just come sunnily back with his bright but disastrous ideas.

||1:然而，他没齿未忘的是，人——是有尊严的。||2: 也许，这就是阿尔巴尼亚人喜欢他的原因。||3:虽然，小矮子诺曼之上的大人物们（他的人生中处处有大人物）对他以蔑视待之，但他总会有办法对付他们。||4:他会在大人物的草坪上散步，脱下自己的裤子换上大人物们的定制服装，或者，掀掉草坪围栏上的全部上好的藏青铜饰并将其抛入海中。||5:实际上，他们与他没有两样。||6:虽然，他也许衣装褴褛、领带斜系、裤子太短，但他并不是一个流浪汉。||7:虽然，他的上司，特别是令人失望的 Grimsdale先生曾如狗叫一般使唤他，但他也只是快乐地回忆起他的辉煌而不是曾经的那些坏念头。

Suicide in India: A break for the despairing

印度的自杀：一场绝望的间歇

That Used to Be Us, the title of one of many books in this new subgenre, captured the despairing mood of American elites.

《那曾经是我们》一书很好的记载了这一趋势。书中精确地抓住了美国中坚分子的失望情绪。

Ms Oates includes fragments of correspondence with friends to help convey her despairing state of mind.

奥茨收录了与朋友往来书信的片段，以帮助传达她内心的绝望状态。

It is not unusual for men caught in this cycle to feel anxious, socially ill-at-ease, moody, despairing , and apathetic.

对男人来说，陷入焦虑、社交的局促不安、喜怒无常、绝望、冷漠的怪圈没有什么不正常的。

The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them and sobbed. The silence of tears once opened, the despairing man writhed.

过去又回来和现在正面相对；他比较了一下，于是嚎啕痛哭，眼泪的闸门一开，这个失望的人便哭得直不起腰来。

A little later the despairing wife of one of the victims committed suicide.

后来其中一名绝望的受害者的妻子自杀身亡。

She looked despairing when her cousin took all her treasures from her.

她的堂兄把她的那些宝贝宝贝夺走时，她看起来很绝望。宝贝

Although 1984 is quite gloomy and despairing , we have to acknowledge that it’s still in our “grasp” to create such a scenario.

尽管1984是十分黑暗和令人绝望的，我们得感谢我们还能够写这么一段简介。

Even in the face of this downward spiral, the despairing have hoped.

尽管面临着这样的下降趋势，但是绝望中依然带有一线生机。

The prospect of further upsets to the ill-starred attempt to rewrite the way the EU operates has European leaders panicking or despairing .

进一步扭转试图改变欧盟运行方式这一行动的前景，已经使欧洲各国领导感到惊慌和绝望了。

Despairing Voice --An Analysis of Pessimism in Dreiser’s Novels

绝望的声音--论德莱塞小说中的悲观主义

American politicians, despairing of their inability to reduce the deficit in normal ways, have put a gun to their own heads.

看来美国政治家们对于自己无法按正常方式降低赤字感到绝望，只得拿枪指着自己的脑袋了。

Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty.

马吕斯大失所望，呆呆地盯着那所阴沉沉、和坟墓一般黑一般寂静因而更加空旷的房子。

Images of defiant “broom armies” , gathering spontaneously to clear up the debris, helped lift an initially despairing mood.

目中无人的“扫帚军队”自发地团结起来清扫残骸，帮助消除了最原始的绝望情绪。

Despairing of getting a state with the co-operation of Mr Netanyahu, they are urging the UN to vote one into being instead.

丧失了获得与国家主席内塔尼亚胡共同合作的信心，取而代之的是他们敦促联合国投票。

The loot keeps eluding them; the garden keels into ruin; the house becomes a mining camp, filthy with dust and despairing hope.

箱子始终和他们捉迷藏；花园被翻得糟蹋毁了；房屋变成了开采营地，肮脏得到处是灰土和无望的希望。

A hero bored of life, who makes bad choices and ends alone, despairing , unfulfilled.

厌恶生活的主人公作了错误的选择，孤独终老，绝望而失落。