The fresh winds blew away desponding doubts, delusive fancies, and moody mists.
清新的风吹散了沮丧的疑虑、虚幻的幻想和喜怒无常的迷雾。
Mr. Northup and myself immediately hastened to the landing, and taking passage on the first steamer that arrived, were soon floating down Red River, up which, with such desponding thoughts, I had been borne twelve years before.
诺萨普先生和我立即赶往岸边,乘坐第一艘抵达的轮船, 很快就顺着红河漂流而下, 十二年前我怀着如此沮丧的想法登上了这条河。
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,他在工作期间所挣的钱, 不仅可以在他闲着的时候维持他的生计, 而且还可以补偿他在想到如此不稳定的况时常会引起的焦虑和沮丧的时刻。
'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'.
'是的。是的,我现在看到了。她是来参观坟墓的。自从那个儿子死后,她就成了一个凄凉、沮丧的女人,总是为他哀哭。她是一个农民的妻子,受良好的教育——我相信她原本是家庭教师。”