despairの意味・使い方・発音

despair

英 [dɪ'speə] 美 [dɪ'spɛr]

絶望絶望

de-, not, 反対にする。-spair、希望、語源的にはspeed、繁栄と同じ。

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

1. Don 't let yourself despair ; this will only make matters worse.: 思い切れないようにして、状況を悪化させるしかありません。

2.I would overcome any weakness，any despair ，any fear.: 私はすべての弱さ、絶望、恐怖を克服します。

3.As his energy drained away,his despair and worry grew.: 彼の精力が尽きた時、彼の絶望と心配も増えた。

4.I was in the depths of despair when the baby was sick.: 子供が病気になったとき、私は絶望の淵に陥った。

5.The night before the test I was overcome by fear and despair .: 試験前の夜、恐怖と絶望に心がパニックになった。