hopelessness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈhəʊp.ləs.nəs/ us/ˈhoʊp.ləs.nəs/
绝望,毫无希望
the feeling or state of being without hope
I find the hopelessness of the situation very depressing. 我觉得这种无望的情况非常令人沮丧。
Utter hopelessness about your future is one symptom of depression. 对自己的未来完全无望是抑郁症的一个症状。
很不擅长;一窍不通
the quality of being without skill at a particular activity
His hopelessness at remembering names meant that he had to look them up in his book. 他从来就记不住人名,所以只能在自己的本子里查找。
His schools had only seen his hopelessness at literacy and missed his outstanding grasp of the visual. 他的学校只知道他在读写方面不可救药,却忽略了他对视觉形象的出色理解力。
See: hopeless
- More examples
- His body language summed up the apparent hopelessness of the situation.
- You did feel a hopelessness at times, a feeling that you couldn't cope.
- his supposed hopelessness at writing strong female characters