| 单词 | bereft |
| 释义 | be·reft /bəˈreft/ adjective 1 bereft of hope/meaning/life etc NOT HAVEcompletely without any hope etc 失去希望/意义/生命等 The team now seems bereft of inspiration. 这支球队现在好像毫无斗志。2 SAD/UNHAPPYfeeling very sad and lonely 伤感的；寂寞的；失落的 His death in 1990 left her completely bereft. 他于1990年去世，令她深感孤寂。Examples from the Corpusbereft• She wanted to see him so badly that she felt physically bereft.• Feeling oddly bereft and desolate, besieged by Dolly's incessant chatter, Luce was pleased to get back to the hotel.• Was it too as bereft as she now was?• For the destitute, the impoverished, the sick, the hunted and the bereft, life was intolerably precarious.• So many shop-window dummies, suddenly bereft of all life.• How haggard and bereft of hope they looked!• Thus was the contrary proved: the party was bereft of new ideas altogether.• Now bereft of roofs and windows, its sightless eyes command a superb view of the Swale far below.Origin bereft (1500-1600) Old form of bereavedbe·reft adjectiveChineseSyllable completely without Corpus etc any hope |
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