underhope

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A lowered expectation or hope. countable,uncountable
    — Of baffled struggling crowds and broken cries And the great stedfast underhope that never dies.

词形变化

underhopes plural

词源

Perhaps from Middle English underhopen (“to consider as secondary, discount”), equivalent to under- + hope.
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