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forlorn
时间: 2024-04-06 06:38:49
GRE
英 [fəˈlɔːn]
美 [fərˈlɔːrn]

adj. 被遗弃的;孤苦伶仃的;可怜的;不可能成功的;没希望的

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双语例句
  • Thirty years later, I returned to my hometown and found it empty and forlorn.

    三十年后,我回到家乡,发现它早已是空旷凄惶。

  • He had been forlorn since childhood and grew up alone in the village.

    他从小就孤苦伶仃,一个人在村庄里长大。

  • My team and I agree that crossing this desert is a forlorn matter.

    我和队员们都认为穿过这片沙漠是不大可能的。

  • She looked so forlorn, standing there in the rain.

    她站在雨中 显得孤苦伶仃

  • Empty houses quickly take on a forlorn look.

    空无一人的房屋很快就显得凄凉。

  • She looked so forlorn, standing there in the rain.

    她站在雨中,显得孤苦伶仃。

  • One of the demonstrators, a young woman, sat forlorn on the sidewalk.

    其中一名示威者,一个年轻的女子,孤独无助地坐在人行道上。

  • She waited in the forlorn hope that he would one day come back to her.

    她几乎毫无指望地等待他有一天会回到她的身边。

  • Peasants have left the land in the forlorn hope of finding a better life in cities.

    农民们带着在城市里寻求更好生活的遥不可及的希望离开了那块土地,。

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词根 forlorn

  • forlornly adv. 可怜地;孤苦伶仃地;没希望地;渺茫地

释义
adj.

pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

被遗弃的;孤苦伶仃的;可怜的

  • forlorn figures at bus stops.

     汽车站旁孤零零的人。

(of an aim or endeavour)unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled; hopeless

(目标,努力)不可能成功的;没希望的

  • a forlorn attempt to escape.

     无成功希望的逃跑企图。

短语
  • forlorn hope a persistent or desperate hope that is unlikely to be fulfilled 渺茫的希望;不可能实现的愿望

  • [ORIGIN mid 16th cent. from Dutch verloren hoop ‘lost troop', from verloren (past participle of verliezen ‘lose') and hoop ‘company' (related to HEAP). The phrase originally denoted a band of soldiers picked to begin an attack, many of whom would not survive; the current sense (mid 17th cent.), derives from a misunderstanding of the etymology.]

词源

"Old English forloren ‘depraved, morally abandoned', past participle of forlēosan ‘lose', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch verliezen and German verlieren, and ultimately to FOR- and LOSE. Sense 1 dates from the 16th cent."

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