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desperately

/des-per-it-lee, -prit-/US // ˈdɛs pər ɪt li, -prɪt- //

拼命地,拼命的,拼命,拚命地

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a reckless or dangerous way because of hopelessness or urgency:In the movie, he’s the object of an intense police manhunt and scrambles desperately around Belfast trying to escape.
    • : in a way that shows urgent need or desire:He is highly motivated to put his all into everything he does, trying desperately to prove himself.
    • : to a very serious or dangerous degree that leaves little hope:People without medical insurance may often suffer without care until they are desperately ill.
    • : extremely or excessively:My weekend will be desperately dull, as I've been on vacation all week and have to catch up with work.

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Examples

  • “Otherwise, it was a desperate, vomitous attack on every American who bothered to vote,” he said.

  • Tetzlaff proposed capturing that water, treating and reselling it to Southern California utilities, which are desperate for more local supplies.

  • By that point, he was desperate to get his inner life back on track and hoped that therapy might make a difference.

  • People are getting so desperate and it’s our own country’s fault.

  • The company was cofounded by Hennes Weiss, an Austrian music promoter, who is desperate to revive the live-music scene that is currently locked down across much of Europe.

  • He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish.

  • She seemed to create her own world and you desperately wanted to be part of it.

  • Pro-pipeline Democrats, meanwhile, appeared to be searching desperately for ways to turn a crushing defeat into a moral victory.

  • And the show desperately needed the likes of Parker to throw Red off his game, to put a stop to his swagger.

  • Their community, their city, their country, desperately needs them.

  • At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

  • She is immensely rich, one of the ablest political women in London, and Jack is desperately in love with her.

  • I sometimes think he loved that girl desperately, and would have made her an idolatrous husband.

  • At the end of the first shocked instant, they both laughed wildly, desperately.

  • Investigation showed three of the guerrillas dead and three more desperately wounded.