This is a modern city, not a scene of fragmentation or despair, but a rising city of desire.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

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Do they provide hope or despair?

它们提供了希望还是绝望？

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A fighter will never lose heart or despair.

战士是不知道灰心与绝望的。

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This is the modern city, not as a scene of fragmentation or despair, but rather a place of ascent and aspiration.

这是一座现代化的城市，并不是破碎或绝望的场景，而是一座在上升的渴望之城。

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He wants to find a way to not so much redeem as affirm time and age and understand them not simply as a cause of despair or as a cause of defeat.

他想找到一种方式，不是去挽回,时间或年龄，而是承认它们,不将其仅仅理解为绝望或失败的原因。

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Prisoners would find reasons for hope or despair in the smallest things, leading to painful emotional swings.

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But as hard as it may be, we should not, and cannot, give in to cynicism or despair.

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It turns them into winners and transforms them into people who can never, ever be conquered by fear or despair ever again.

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