Disconsolate

(n.) Disconsolateness.

(v. t.) Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.

(v. t.) Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.

校對:塞勒斯特

• While they were doing so, Riderhood still sat staring disconsolate. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• In one corner, near a small fire, sat an old man, leaning his head on his hands in a disconsolate attitude. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
• What a pitiable, forlorn, disconsolate being I was! 瑪麗·雪萊. 最后一個人.
• The third, a Jeune Mère, hanging disconsolate over a clayey and puffy baby with a face like an unwholesome full moon. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• And she majestically walked to and fro along their disconsolate and impatient line, like a little Bonaparte in a mouse-coloured silk gown. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Tom rose, disconsolate, and stumbled into the cabin that had been allotted to him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
• So spake Riderhood, staring disconsolate. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Mr Boffin, for his part, made no attempt to come down, but remained aloft disconsolate. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• I think, Small, says the disconsolate Mr. Guppy, you might have mentioned that the old man was your uncle. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• The disconsolate journalist had seated himself at a writing-table. 阿瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
• The informer wiped his brow ruefully as he said it, sitting in his boat and always staring disconsolate. 查爾斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
• Jo leaned her chin on her knees in a disconsolate attitude and shook her fist at the reprehensible John. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.

錄入:洛倫佐