bereft

英 [bɪˈreft]

美 [bɪˈreft]

adj.  完全没有，丧失，失去(某物); 感到失落
v.  使丧失亲友
bereave的过去分词和过去式

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.14655 / COCA.16140

牛津词典

adj.

• 完全没有，丧失，失去（某物）
  completely lacking sth; having lost sth
  1. bereft of ideas/hope
     无计可施；失去希望
• 感到失落
  sad and lonely because you have lost sth
  1. He was utterly bereft when his wife died.
     他的妻子去世时，他十分凄凉。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 失去…的；丧失…的
  If a person or thing isbereft ofsomething, they no longer have it.
  1. The place seemed to be utterly bereft of human life.
     这个地方似乎根本没有人烟。

英英释义

adj

• sorrowful through loss or deprivation
  1. bereft of hope
  Synonym:bereavedgrief-strickengrievingmourning(a)sorrowing(a)
• unhappy in love
  Synonym:lovelornunbeloved

双语例句

• But if you've built your life around your children you'll be terribly bereft.
  但如果你一直围着孩子转，那么当他们离开时，你会感到失去亲人般的痛苦。
• No power will be able to put back the verity into these speeches, into these lives bereft of Godly intent and service, into these loud exclamations which have turned into empty shells.
  没有任何力量能够将真理放回到这些言语中、放回到这些缺少神圣意图与服务的生命中、放回到已变成空壳的这些大声呼喊的人群中。
• Nearly everyone whose mother is absent feels bereft.
  几乎每个失去母亲的人都会有缺失的感觉。
• Bereft of leverage, it can be pushed back to its bottom line by a clever opponent.
  手上丧失了筹码以后，就会被明智的对手逼至底线。
• Bereft of the power of devil forging, you cannot hope to pursue me!
  被剥夺了使魔炼成的能力后，你一点纠缠我的希望都没有了。
• Failure was not imminent, and I could not be bereft of hope easily.
  失败还没有迫在眉睫，我不能就这么轻易地被剥夺了希望。
• The bereft girl keened her sorrow.
  那个失去亲人的姑娘哭出自己的悲痛之情。
• That has left everyone from finance minister or central banker to small investor or pension holder bereft of an intellectual compass, dazed and confused.
  从财政部长和央行行长、到小型投资者和养老金持有人，每个人都因此失去了智力罗盘，变得茫然和困惑。
• Feminists and Republicans have collaborated to leave the US bereft of any culture of love, Bruckner believes.
  布吕克内认为，女权主义和共和党勾结，导致美国丧失了一切爱恋文化。
• Although St Lucia trades on its relatively unsophisticated image, it is not bereft of celebrity glamour.
  尽管圣卢西亚利用了其相对朴素的形象，但它并没有丧失其名人魅力。