desperate

[ˈdespərət]

基础释义

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adj.
拼命的;孤注一掷的;极需要的;极困难的;极严重的;绝望的;

更新时间：2024-06-30 22:21:15

速记技巧

词根词缀法

de（远离）+sper（希望）+ate（使动后缀）→使远离希望=“绝望的”。

我们解释一下为什么sper是希望的意思。

其实也是根据声音变化法则，大家肯定认识expect是期待、期望的意思，更进一步引申为希望的意思，ex=s,pe=pe,r=t=ct，所以sper=expect=期望，希望。于是加一个表示否定的前缀de，那就是没有希望，绝望的，不期望不期待了的。

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同根词汇

desperation n.绝望的境地；不顾一切拼命

desperately adv.拼命地；绝望地；极度地

双语例句

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1、

He intercuts scenes of Rex getting more and more desperate with scenes of the abductor with his family.

他在雷克斯逐步陷入绝望和劫持者与他家人一起的场景之间相交切。
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2、

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

需要军队帮助将科索沃人民亟需的食品送抵那里。
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3、

They admit they are now desperate for a lucky break.

他们承认现在急盼幸运之神的降临。
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4、

A desperate tiredness set in after hours of anxious waiting.

数小时的焦急等待之后,整个人变得精疲力竭.
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5、

It is one of the most desperate cases on her files.

这是她记录的档案中最严重的案例之一。
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6、

He was desperate for work to provide food for his children.

为了孩子们有饭吃,他拼命找工作.
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7、

He is desperate to pursue his vocation as an artist.

他不顾一切地从事艺术的职业.
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8、

The prisoners grew more desperate.

囚犯们在绝望中更加不顾死活了.
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9、

The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.

政府急于重新获取公众的信任.
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10、

The enemy became desperate at the defeat.

敌人因失败而进行殊死挣扎.
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11、

In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution.

为了竭力避免败局，他勉强答应要对宪法进行大规模修改。
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12、

The desperate condition of the world is that madness has always been here, and that it will remain so for all time.

这个世界令人绝望的是，疯狂之事一直存在，而且将永远存在下去。
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13、

They made a desperate attempt to save the company.

他们为挽救公司作孤注一掷的努力.
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14、

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

焦急万分的鲍勃和汉斯把整座房子找了个遍。
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15、

He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz.

在孤注一掷地闪电战中他猛冲过外国领地.
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16、

The women's volleyball team put up a desperate fight to win the world championship at all costs.

女子排球队为赢得世界冠军而不惜一切代价,殊死拼搏.
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17、

You know the health service is in such a state and it's getting desperate now.

你知道,医疗卫生服务本来就够差的了,现在更是变本加厉了.
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18、

He would never dream up a desperate scheme like that on his own.

他绝不会想出那样一个不顾一切的计划.
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19、

They are desperate to erase the memory of that last defeat in Cardiff.

他们急于抹去上次在卡迪夫遭遇失败的记忆。
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20、

He's desperate for money.

他极渴望得到钱.
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21、

He is a desperate criminal.

他是个亡命之徒.
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22、

The President has so far refused to countersign the Prime Minister's desperate decree.

总统到目前为止仍然拒绝在首相那条孤注一掷的政令上连署签字。
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23、

Many of the properties are in a desperate state but none is too far gone to save.

很多地产情况都很糟糕，但都还不至于无法挽救。
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24、

The report limned a desperate situation.

那报道描述出一个严重的情况.
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25、

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

他们结婚已快4年了，琼非常渴望要个孩子。
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26、

He is so deep in debt and desperate for money that he's apparently willing to say anything.

他负债累累，急需要钱，很显然什么话都说得出来。
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27、

It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that I'm desperate to leave.

说我渴望离开是有点夸张.
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28、

The enemy grew desperate at the defeat.

敌人因战败而拼死挣扎.
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29、

Later he turned his attention to the desperate state of housing in the province.

其后，他将注意力转向了该省形势严峻的住房问题。
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30、

Though the brakes of his bike had somewhat gone wrong, he still shot the works in a desperate effort to win the race.

虽然他的自行车刹车有点毛病, 但他仍然为赢得比赛而孤注一掷.
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