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forlorn

adjective
🔊/fəˈlɔːn/
🔊/fərˈlɔːrn/
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  1. (of a person人) appearing lonely and unhappy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.几个不幸的游客在等他们的教练。
    Topics Feelingsc2
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  2. (of a place地方) not cared for and with no people in it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.那座小屋空无一人。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs
    • be
    • feel
    • look
    • …
    adverb
    • very
    • quite
    • utterly
    • …
    See full entry
  3. 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。🔊🔊
    Topics Difficulty and failurec2
    4. Word OriginOld 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.