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词汇 example_english_counsel-of-despair
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counsel of despair

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meanings of counseland despair


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counsel
noun
uk /ˈkaʊn.səl/ us /ˈkaʊn.səl/
formal
advice:
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despair
noun[U]
uk /dɪˈspeər/ us /dɪˈsper/
the feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or ...
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Examples of counsel of despair


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I suppose we may agree that a primitive mechanism of "grasping" is, if true, a counselofdespair.
He does, however, in the remainder of the chapter retreat from this counselofdespair to consider work in some important sub-domains of language learning.
It is sheer defeatism, a counselofdespair, to throw up the sponge and go in for all-round restriction.
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That is a counselofdespair, and a significant one.
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Those who say that an import boom is bound to follow from a cut in taxation are providing a counselofdespair.
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I regard that as a counselofdespair.
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Surely that is a counselofdespair—as we cannot stop it, let us regulate it.
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It may be a counselofdespair, but it is also true.
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It is something of a counselofdespair to say that we should take no action if existing tenants might benefit the most.
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In a democracy, that seems a counselofdespair.
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To some, no doubt, religion is a counselofdespair.
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But to argue that nothing can be done because so much has to be done is, in my view, a counselofdespair.
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To have a strategy that could not be altered by any circumstance, would be a counselofdespair.
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To say in these circumstances that anything is better than nothing is indeed a counselofdespair.
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That is a counselofdespair and one which we should do everything to refute.
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That is a counselofdespair and defeat.
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I have always believed that sanctions do not work, never can work and, in the end, are nothing less than a counselofdespair.
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That is surely a counselofdespair, alien to our traditions.
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First, there has been the counselofdespair.
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I regard this kind of talk as a counselofdespair.
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