Remember, she says that, as she is growing more and more desperate at the end, that her men were being stripped away from her one by one.

记住她说过到最后,她变得越来越绝望，因为男人们一个个地离她远去。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'm looking desperately at the T.A. Is that right?

我在绝望地看着助教,没算错吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

I am at the point of believing," he says, "that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato," he says in a moment of sort of uncharacteristic despair, "will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato."

我就快相信，自己所做的这一切都将是无用功,就像柏拉图所建立的理想国一样,他曾异常绝望地这样说，就像柏拉图的理想国一样毫无意义“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选