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1 hopelessly
['həʊplɪslɪ]1) (irretrievably) [drunk, inadequate] completamente; [ in love] perdutamente2) (despairingly) [speak, weep] disperatamente* * *adverb senza speranza* * *hopelessly► hopeless* * *['həʊplɪslɪ]1) (irretrievably) [drunk, inadequate] completamente; [ in love] perdutamente2) (despairingly) [speak, weep] disperatamente -
2 hopelessly hope·less·ly adv
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3 Hope
I [həʊp]1) speranza f.to have high hopes of sb., sth. — avere grandi speranze per qcn., qcs.
to be beyond (all) o without hope essere senza speranza; to keep one's hopes high mantenere vive le proprie speranze; there are grounds for hope ci sono buone ragioni per sperare; to raise sb.'s hopes dare speranza a qcn.; to dash sb.'s hopes infrangere le speranze di qcn.; to have no hope of (doing) sth. non avere nessuna speranza di (fare) qcs.; there is little hope that ci sono poche speranze che; there is no hope of non ci sono speranze di; what a hope! some hope! colloq. magari! he hasn't got a hope in hell — colloq. non ha la benché minima speranza
2) (promising person) speranza f.II 1. [həʊp]verbo transitivo sperare (2.I only o just hope he remembers spero solo che si ricordi; I (do) hope so, not spero (proprio) di sì, di no; hoping to hear from you — (in letter) nella speranza di ricevere presto tue notizie
verbo intransitivo sperareto hope for sth. — sperare o confidare in qcs.
••to hope against hope — illudersi, coltivare vane speranze
* * *[həup] 1. verb(to want something to happen and have some reason to believe that it will or might happen: He's very late, but we are still hoping he will come; I hope to be in London next month; We're hoping for some help from other people; It's unlikely that he'll come now, but we keep on hoping; `Do you think it will rain?' `I hope so/not'.) sperare2. noun1) ((any reason or encouragement for) the state of feeling that what one wants will or might happen: He has lost all hope of becoming the president; He came to see me in the hope that I would help him; He has hopes of winning a scholarship; The rescuers said there was no hope of finding anyone alive in the mine.) speranza2) (a person, thing etc that one is relying on for help etc: He's my last hope - there is no-one else I can ask.) speranza3) (something hoped for: My hope is that he will get married and settle down soon.) speranza•- hopeful- hopefulness
- hopefully
- hopeless
- hopelessly
- hopelessness
- hope against hope
- hope for the best
- not have a hope
- not a hope
- raise someone's hopes* * *(First names) Hope /həʊp/f.* * *I [həʊp]1) speranza f.to have high hopes of sb., sth. — avere grandi speranze per qcn., qcs.
to be beyond (all) o without hope essere senza speranza; to keep one's hopes high mantenere vive le proprie speranze; there are grounds for hope ci sono buone ragioni per sperare; to raise sb.'s hopes dare speranza a qcn.; to dash sb.'s hopes infrangere le speranze di qcn.; to have no hope of (doing) sth. non avere nessuna speranza di (fare) qcs.; there is little hope that ci sono poche speranze che; there is no hope of non ci sono speranze di; what a hope! some hope! colloq. magari! he hasn't got a hope in hell — colloq. non ha la benché minima speranza
2) (promising person) speranza f.II 1. [həʊp]verbo transitivo sperare (2.I only o just hope he remembers spero solo che si ricordi; I (do) hope so, not spero (proprio) di sì, di no; hoping to hear from you — (in letter) nella speranza di ricevere presto tue notizie
verbo intransitivo sperareto hope for sth. — sperare o confidare in qcs.
••to hope against hope — illudersi, coltivare vane speranze
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4 ♦ hopeless
♦ hopeless /ˈhəʊpləs/a.1 disperato; senza speranza; irreparabile: hopeless sorrow, dolore disperato; a hopeless situation, una situazione disperata4 (fam.) pessimo; disastroso: a hopeless actor, un pessimo attore; He's hopeless at maths, in matematica è una franahopelessly avv. hopelessness n. [u]. -
5 impossible
[ɪm'pɒsəbl] 1.aggettivo [person, situation] impossibile, intollerabile; [ suggestion] inattuabile, impossibile2.to make it impossible for sb. to do sth. — rendere impossibile per qcn. fare qcs
* * *[im'posəbl]1) (that cannot be or be done: It is impossible to sing and drink at the same time; an impossible task.) impossibile2) (hopelessly bad or wrong: That child's behaviour is quite impossible.) insopportabile•- impossibility* * *[ɪm'pɒsəbl] 1.aggettivo [person, situation] impossibile, intollerabile; [ suggestion] inattuabile, impossibile2.to make it impossible for sb. to do sth. — rendere impossibile per qcn. fare qcs
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