be in despair

基本解释

People may be in despair and not know it.
人们可能会在绝望和不知道。
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You may be in deep despair, deep trouble, under deep stress.
你可能深陷于绝境，困难重重，压力很大。
If you have not save the working copy of the file , you will be in much despair.
如果您还没有保存的工作文件的副本，您将在很大的绝望。

I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."
我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“
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