Because they didn't get out by this coming Christmas, and then they were desponded, resigned, helpless, and very often, they died.
因为他们这年圣诞节没有被放出去,他们失望,气馁,无助,通情况下,他们会死去。
" She is growing better, I am sure of it, my dear. Don't despond, but hope and keep happy, " said Mrs. March, as tenderhearted Daisy stooped from her knee to lay her rosy cheek against her little cousin's pale one.
“她身体逐渐好起来了,我可以说得准,亲爱。别沮,要充满希望,保持乐观,”马奇太太说道,这软心肠黛西从外婆膝上弯下身去,将她红润脸蛋贴在小表妹苍白脸上。
What he earns, therefore, while he is employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion.
因此,他在工作期间所挣钱, 不仅可以在他闲着候维持他生计, 而且还可以补偿他在想到如此不稳定情况会引起焦虑和沮刻。
'Yes, it was. Yes, I see it now. She was there to visit the tomb. Since the death of that son she has been a desolate, desponding woman, always bewailing him. She was a farmer's wife, very well educated—a governess originally, I believe'.
'是。是,我现在看到了。她是来参观坟墓。自从那个儿子死后,她就成了个凄凉、沮女人,总是为他哀哭。她是个农民妻子,受过良好教育——我相信她原本是家庭教师。”