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feeling or showing that you have little hope and are ready to do anything without worrying about danger to yourself or others （因絕望而）不惜冒險的，不顧一切的，拼命的 The prisoners grew increasingly desperate. 犯人因絕望而越來越膽大妄爲。 Stores are getting desperate after two years of poor sales. 兩年來銷路不暢，商店不惜冒起險來。 Somewhere out there was a desperate man, cold, hungry, hunted. 那外面有個男人又冷又餓，還有人抓他，走投無路了。 I heard sounds of a desperate struggle in the next room. 我聽到隔壁房間裏有拼命掙紮的聲音。
Extra ExamplesTopics Feelingsb2I was starting to get desperate. 我開始變得不顧一切了。 She felt utterly desperate. 她感到徹底絕望了。 The sudden loss of his money had made him desperate. 錢突然沒了使他絕望。
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(of an action 行爲 giving little hope of success; tried when everything else has failed 絕望的；孤注一擲的；铤而走險的 He made a desperate bid for freedom. 他爲獲自由孤注一擲。 She clung to the edge in a desperate attempt to save herself. 爲了活命，她拼命抓住邊緣。 His increasing financial difficulties forced him to take desperate measures. 不斷增加的經濟困難迫使他采取了铤而走險的辦法。 Doctors were fighting a desperate battle to save the little girl's life. 醫生們不惜一切地奮力搶救小女孩的生命。
Extra ExamplesTopics Difficulty and failureb2a desperate search for a way out 絕望地尋找出路 Jake held up his hands in a desperate plea for calm. 傑克舉起雙手，絕望地請求平靜。 Kaleil's final, desperate efforts to save the business come to naught. 卡萊勒爲挽救公司所做的最後的絕望努力化爲烏有。
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needing or wanting something very much 非常需要；極想；渴望 - desperate for something
He was so desperate for a job he would have done anything. 他當時太想找份工作了，什麽事都願意幹。 - (informal)
I'm desperate for a cigarette. 我很想抽支煙。 to be desperate for money/help/cash/attention 急需金錢/幫助/現金/關注 - desperate to do something
I was absolutely desperate to see her. 我極想見到她。 She was desperate to escape small town life. 她急於逃離小鎮生活。
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(of a situation 情況 extremely serious or dangerous 極嚴重的；極危險的；很危急的 The children are in desperate need of love and attention. 這些孩子非常需要愛心和關注。 They face a desperate shortage of clean water. 他們面臨潔淨水的嚴重短缺。 His financial situation was desperate. 他的財務狀況令人絕望。 He had died in desperate poverty. 他在極度貧困中死去。 American farmers are in desperate straits today. 今天，美國農民陷入了絕望的困境。
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Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘in despair’): from Latin desperatus ‘deprived of hope’, past participle of desperare, from de- ‘down from’ + sperare ‘to hope’.