desperate

释义

adj.拼命的; 孤注一掷的; 极需要的; 极困难的; 极严重的; 绝望的

词态变化

副词 :   desperately ;

实用场景例句

The desperate public eagerly awaits his decisive move.

公众急切地期盼着他果断的行动。

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The Indian representative at the UN depicted the circumstances as extremely desperate...

印度驻联合国代表将情况描述为极度危急...

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Bound by my unwavering resolve to support John in his desperate situation, I vowed not to abandon him when he needed me most.

我决心在约翰陷入绝望境地时坚定地支持他，发誓在他最需要我的时候绝不抛弃他。

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Troops need to be dispatched urgently to provide vital provisions for Kosovo's desperate population suffering from severe scarcities.

急需派遣部队为科索沃急需物资的绝望民众提供重要补给，他们正遭受严重的短缺。

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Desperate for answers, Bob and Hans combed through the entire house meticulously.

心急如焚的鲍勃和汉斯仔细地搜遍了整栋房子。

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Desperate for a child after nearly four years of wedlock, June yearned deeply to start a family with her spouse.

结婚近四年后，琼迫切渴望与配偶组建家庭。

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The refugees are in desperate need of food and shelter.

这些难民急需食物和住所。

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(informal)I'm desperate for a cup of coffee.

我非常想喝杯咖啡。

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I was desperately eager to meet him.

我极其渴望见到他。

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They desperately needed a solution.

他们急需一个解决办法。

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She searched desperately through the room for an escape.

她拼命地在房间里寻找一个逃脱的方法。

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真题例句

For workers, especially low-paid workers, who desperately need their jobs yet know they can be easily replaced, gamification may feel more like the Hunger Games.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

They are in desperate need of financial assistance.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

The company also embarked on a desperate cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

"The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation," said USFWS director Daniel Ashe.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun

1. a person who is frightened and in need of help;

"they prey on the hopes of the desperate"

Adjective

1. arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope;

"a despairing view of the world situation"

"the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"

"a desperate cry for help"

"helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"

"her desperate screams"

2. desperately determined;

"do-or-die revolutionaries"

"a do-or-die conflict"

3. (of persons) dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or despair;

"a desperate criminal"

"taken hostage of desperate men"

4. showing extreme courage; especially of actions courageously undertaken in desperation as a last resort;

"made a last desperate attempt to reach the climber"

"the desperate gallantry of our naval task forces marked the turning point in the Pacific war"- G.C.Marshall

"they took heroic measures to save his life"

5. showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire;

"felt a desperate urge to confess"

"a desperate need for recognition"

6. fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;

"a desperate illness"

"on all fronts the Allies were in a desperate situation due to lack of materiel"- G.C.Marshall

"a dire emergency"