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desperate

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借自拉丁语 dēspērātus，dēspērō (“没有希望”)的过去分词。

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desperate (比较级 more desperate，最高级 most desperate)

  1. 急需的
    I hadn't eaten in two days and was desperate for food.
    我已经两天没吃东西了，非常想吃东西。
    desperate to eat; desperate for attention
    极度渴望吃东西；极度渴望得到关注
  2. 绝望的
    I was so desperate at one point, I even went to see a loan shark.
    我一度非常绝望，甚至去借高利贷。
    • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • Template:RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp
    • 2022年1月12日, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, 出自 RAIL, 第 948 期，第 43 页:
      But signalman Bridges was never to answer driver Gimbert's desperate question. A deafening, massive blast blew the wagon to shreds, the 44 high-explosive bombs exploding like simultaneous hits from the aircraft they should have been dropped from. The station was instantly reduced to bits of debris, and the line to a huge crater.
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  3. 铤而走险的，孤注一掷的
    a desperate disease;  desperate fortune
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  4. 拼命的，不顾一切的
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    • 1904, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Birds Without a Nest: A Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppression in Peru，第 218 页:
      “I knew very well that when the Peruvian Indian does anything wrong it is because he is forced to it by oppression and made desperate by abuse,” replied Lucia.
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    • 2016, Hans-Martin Sass, Cultures in Bioethics, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN，第 239 页:
      Humankind's global integration makes biological combat a weapon of choice for desperate killers, who are either suicidal or intend to infect others  […]
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    He dove into the rushing waters in a desperate effort to save her life.
    他拼命跳入湍急的水流中以挽救她的生命。
  5. 极端的；非常的
    • Template:RQ:Shakespeare All's Well
    • Template:RQ:Britannica 9th
    • 1898, Longman's Magazine，第 161 页:
      The letters which were of most importance were in half a dozen languages and in the desperate handwriting of the period. Eminent men in that age thought it - like Hamlet - a baseness to write fair. Often at the end of a page I have […]
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    • (Can we date this quote?), Stopping Inertia, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN，第 131 页:
      She pictured having a boyfriend over and losing him when he saw her desperate taste in shampoo; however, the chances of that happening were slim.
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    • 2022 September 2, Irish People Try American-Style Pancakes, circa 8:12:
      Whoever's writing the stuff on this has desperate handwriting, like they must be a doctor...
  6. 激烈的，激动的，疯狂的，狂暴的
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    • 2022年5月28日, Phil McCulty, “Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid”, 出自 BBC Sport:
      For Liverpool, it capped six days of desperate disappointment after missing out on the Premier League to Manchester City by a single point then losing to this experienced, street-smart Real team.
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desperate (复数 desperates)

  1. 处于绝境或已到绝境的人

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desperate

  1. desperat 的复数及定单数定语

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dēspērāte

  1. dēspērō 的第二人称复数现在时主动态命令式

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  • desperate in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
  • desperate在Gaffiot, Félix (1934年) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français (拉丁语-法语详解词典)，Hachette中的内容

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desperate

  1. desperat 的定单数
  2. desperat 的复数

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desperate

  1. desperat 的定单数
  2. desperat 的复数

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desperate

  1. desperar 的第二人称单数voseo命令式与 te 的合词
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