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desperado

/des-puh-rah-doh, -rey-/US // ˌdɛs pəˈrɑ doʊ, -ˈreɪ- //UK // (ˌdɛspəˈrɑːdəʊ) //

不择手段的人,不顾一切,不择手段,不择手段者

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural des·per·a·does, des·per·a·dos.

    • : a bold, reckless criminal or outlaw, especially in the early days of the American West.

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Examples

  • Here, the acclaimed director of Desperado and Sin City offers up his top cult films.

  • Rodriguez wrote a script that imagined Trejo, his thuggish muse in Desperado and Spy Kids, as a Mexican Charles Bronson.

  • The desperado might be lying in wait for them, and it would be well for them to proceed slowly and carefully.

  • And his daughter—can she identify this young desperado the moment she sees him?

  • He can move upon an armed desperado and quell him and take him a prisoner without saying a single word.

  • The Commissioner happened to be in Calgary and asked the Superintendent himself to see about the capture of this desperado.

  • Another desperado, lunging his spear through the after-port of the brig, mortally wounded the master.