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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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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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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But thousands sprang to his defense, praising his work as their beloved guidebook out of the valley of despair.

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