desperate

常见例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语: ～+ n.

• He is a desperate criminal.
  他是个亡命之徒。
• They made a desperate attempt to save the company.
  他们为挽救公司作孤注一掷的努力。
• The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.
  这个城市严重缺水。

用作表语: S+be+～

• The prisoners become desperate in their attempts to escape.
  囚犯们孤注一掷企图越狱。
• The state of that country is desperate.
  那个国家的形势非常危急。

S+be+～+ prep .-phrase

• He's desperate for money.
  他极渴望得到钱。

S+be+～+to- v

• They're desperate to escape.
  他们急于想逃跑。

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双语例句

• Another “desperate job seeker” wrote: “Why not take up the job?
  另一个“绝望的求职者”写道：“为什么不去干这项工作？
• Your description desperate, but only to analysis the statement of the word, you let us see the fundamental mistake.
  你的描述令人绝望，不过只是对分析而言，你的陈述让人看到了它的根本错误。
• Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
  原本头脑清醒的国民突然马上变成了不顾一切的赌徒，将他们的生活建立在一张纸上。

原声例句

• "This is an opportunity to help a neighbor in need, in desperate need, and to do it with swiftness, expertise,generosity and love."
• A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal.
  他的忏悔被绝望的虔诚悸动着,但这也不能为他那恶魔的狡诈赎罪，他是变态。
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• But if I'm poor and I'm desperate, like I might commit a crime to feed my family and that can affect others.
  但如果我又穷又绝望，我就可能会为了养家糊口而犯罪,那就影响到别人了。
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权威例句

• By God, investors, especially retired investors, are desperate for income to pay their bills.
  FORBES: Desperate For Income?
• Messrs Adams and McGuinness have been desperate to avoid a split in republican ranks.
  ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland
• Now Army leaders are desperate to reduce tours from 15 months to 12 months.
  NPR: Military Officials Focus on Easing Strain on Army
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