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desperateness

/des-per-it, -prit/US // ˈdɛs pər ɪt, -prɪt //UK // (ˈdɛspərɪt, -prɪt) //

绝望,不顾一切,绝境,拼命三郎

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : reckless or dangerous because of despair, hopelessness, or urgency: a desperate killer.
    • : having an urgent need, desire, etc.: desperate for attention;desperate to find a job.
    • : leaving little or no hope; very serious or dangerous: a desperate illness.
    • : extremely bad; intolerable or shocking: clothes in desperate taste.
    • : extreme or excessive.
    • : making a final, ultimate effort; giving all: a desperate attempt to save a life.
    • : actuated by a feeling of hopelessness.
    • : having no hope; giving in to despair.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Obsolete. a desperado.

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Examples

  • They sent out desperate fundraising pleas for its legal defense fund.

  • These actions are desperate attempts by desperate adversaries.

  • What we have seen in the last year or two was … a desperate flight to consumer revenue for those who are not in it already.

  • For weeks, the California Democrat has been drawing a tough line with a president increasingly desperate to produce a pre-Election Day achievement as he lags in polls.

  • If the South Korean claims are true, however, Lee would join a select group who have attempted the desperate journey across one of the world’s most dangerous borders.

  • And in the desperateness of it, in the fierce height to which his battling temper had arisen, he had killed his man.

  • The inroads of hunger were already experienced; and this knowledge of the desperateness of my calamity urged me to frenzy.

  • From General Lee's letters, official and private, one gets a clear view of the desperateness of his position.

  • A lady visitor was groaning politically to Madame de Girardin over the desperateness of the situation.

  • Then she paused with them in her hand, and the desperateness of the venture nearly overwhelmed her.