I am not asking this question out of despair or to renew hope.

我问这个问题并不是出于绝望或想增强希望。

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I tried to drag myself out of the morass of despair.

我试图把自己从绝望的困境中拉出来。

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If you couldn't attend either of the concerts and are currently gnashing your teeth at having missed out, don't despair.

如果你两场音乐会都去不了而为此咬牙切齿的话，别绝望。

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Plato's desire for a kind of radical makeover, of Athenian and Greek political institutions and cultures, grew out of his experience of political defeat and despair.

柏拉图想要彻底改变，雅典及希腊,政治制度及文化的欲望，来自他的,政治挫折及失望。

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"I wanted to write about my journey and what had happened with losing Matthew and then this miracle that had happened to us with our new child, our two-year-old Luke, and I wanted to write that story to show people that out of despair can still come happiness, " he says.

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Helping them is our duty, it is absolutely essential that we improve their outcomes, but tearing down the whole system out of our despair at their plight will not help them.

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She was a drifter, moving in a miasma of angry despair in and out of speakeasies and other people's beds because her father had refused to let her go to college, even though she'd won a full scholarship to Sarah Lawrence, and even though he would certainly have let her brother go.

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