Don't let yourself despair; this will only make matters worse.

别让你自己绝望；这样将只会使情况变得更糟。

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Only recently, seeing it again, did I realize how much clarity and passion Antonioni brought to the film's silent cry of despair.

直到最近又看了一遍，我才意识到这部影片面对绝望的无声呐喊，是多么的清晰又迷狂。

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Do not despair - screwing your face up like that doesn't help matters at all and will only make your wrinkles worse.

不要绝望——把脸弄得一团糟不仅于事无补，而且会让你的皱纹更多。

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As for the sentiment that it is not merely the international capital market but the basic principles of capitalist economics that need to be questioned, one can only despair that the thought has even surfaced.

ECONOMIST: Heading for meltdown?

Without hope there is only despair.

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But Crusoe's journal is not only a record of despair, but an answer to it.

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