desperate

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英[?desp?r?t]
美[?desp?r?t]

基本釋義

adj.
拼命的; 孤注一擲的; 極需要的; 極困難的; 極嚴(yán)重的; 絕望的

詞性變化

實(shí)用例句

She looked desperately around for a weapon.

她在四下里找,急于弄到一件武器。

牛津詞典

They desperately wanted a child.

他們非常想要一個(gè)孩子。

牛津詞典

I was absolutely desperate to see her.

我極想見到她。

牛津詞典

(informal)I'm desperate for a cigarette.

我很想抽支煙。

牛津詞典

The children are in desperate need of love and attention.

這些孩子非常需要愛心和關(guān)懷。

牛津詞典

They face a desperate shortage of clean water.

他們面臨無污染水源的嚴(yán)重短缺。

牛津詞典

desperately ill/unhappy/lonely

病得厲害;極為不快;極其孤獨(dú)

牛津詞典

He took a deep breath, desperately trying to keep calm.

他深深地吸了口氣,竭盡全力保持鎮(zhèn)定。

牛津詞典

a desperate bid for freedom

孤注一擲爭取自由的努力

牛津詞典

She clung to the edge in a desperate attempt to save herself.

為了活命,她拼命抓住邊緣。

牛津詞典

His increasing financial difficulties forced him to take desperate measures .

不斷增加的經(jīng)濟(jì)困難迫使他采取了鋌而走險(xiǎn)的辦法。

牛津詞典

Doctors were fighting a desperate battle to save the little girl's life.

醫(yī)生們不惜一切地奮力搶救小女孩的生命。

牛津詞典

He was so desperate for a job he would have done anything.

他當(dāng)時(shí)太想找份工作了,什么事都愿意干。

牛津詞典

I heard sounds of a desperate struggle in the next room.

我聽到隔壁房間里有拼命掙扎的聲音。

牛津詞典

The prisoners grew increasingly desperate.

犯人因絕望而越來越膽大妄為。

牛津詞典

Stores are getting desperate after two years of poor sales.

兩年來銷路不暢,商店不惜冒起險(xiǎn)來。

牛津詞典

Somewhere out there was a desperate man, cold, hungry, hunted.

那外面有個(gè)男人又冷又餓,還有人抓他,走投無路了。

牛津詞典

People are desperate for him to do something.

人們極希望他能做點(diǎn)什么。

India's United Nations ambassador said the situation is desperate...

印度駐聯(lián)合國大使說形勢(shì)非常危急。

I decided not to abandon John when he was in such a desperate position.

我決定不在約翰走投無路的時(shí)候拋棄他。

Troops are needed to help get food into Kosovo where people are in desperate need...

需要軍隊(duì)幫助將科索沃人民亟需的食品送抵那里。

Desperate with anxiety, Bob and Hans searched the whole house...

焦急萬分的鮑勃和漢斯把整座房子找了個(gè)遍。

They'd been married nearly four years and June was desperate to start a family...

他們結(jié)婚已快4年了,瓊非常渴望要個(gè)孩子。

The class will debate on matters of mutual concern.

全班將討論一些共同關(guān)心的話題.

期刊摘選

The enemy grew desperate at the defeat.

敵人因戰(zhàn)敗而拼死掙扎.

《現(xiàn)代漢英綜合大詞典》

The prisoners grew more desperate.

囚犯們?cè)诮^望中更加不顧死活了.

《簡明英漢詞典》

He's desperate for money.

他極渴望得到錢.

《簡明英漢詞典》

They made a desperate attempt to save the company.

他們?yōu)橥炀裙咀鞴伦⒁粩S的努力.

《簡明英漢詞典》

真題例句

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月閱讀原文

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月閱讀原文

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

出自-2012年12月閱讀原文

They are in desperate need of financial assistance.

出自-2011年6月聽力原文

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

2019年12月六級(jí)真題(第一套)聽力 Section A

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

2015年12月六級(jí)真題(第三套)閱讀 Section A

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

2015年高考英語上海卷 閱讀理解 閱讀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年高考英語天津卷 閱讀理解 閱讀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年考研閱讀原文

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

2016年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 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年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate.

2014年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 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年考研真題(英語一)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

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

2011年考研真題(英語二)閱讀理解 Section Ⅱ

英英釋義

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"

同義詞

adj.鋌而走險(xiǎn)的

recklessmadrashfranticwildventuresome

反義詞

其他釋義

hopefuldesirous

最新英語單詞

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