forlorn
adjective /fəˈlɔːn/
/fərˈlɔːrn/
- (of a person
) appearing lonely and unhappy人 孤苦伶仃的;孤独凄凉的 - She looked so forlorn, standing there in the rain.
她站在雨中,显得孤苦伶仃。 - A couple of forlorn tourists waited for their coach.
几个孤独的游客在等他们的教练。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
- …
- very
- quite
- utterly
- …
- She looked so forlorn, standing there in the rain.
- (of a place
) not cared for and with no people in it地方 凄凉的;荒芜的 - Empty houses quickly take on a forlorn look.
空无一人的房屋很快就显得凄凉。 - The cottage stood forlorn and empty.
小屋孤零零地空着。
Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- look
- …
- very
- quite
- utterly
- …
- Empty houses quickly take on a forlorn look.
- unlikely to succeed, come true, etc.
不大可能成功的;难以实现的 - 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。 - His father smiled weakly in a forlorn attempt to reassure him that everything was all right.
他父亲淡淡地一笑,试图安慰他一切都好,却没什么效果。
- She waited in the forlorn hope that he would one day come back to her.
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. Senses (1 and 2) date from the 16th cent.