desperately

英 [ˈdɛspərɪtli]

美 [ˈdɛspərətli]

adv.  绝望地；不顾一切地，拼命地; 极度地；猛烈地

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Oxford 3000 / BNC.3523 / COCA.4450

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （因绝望而）孤注一掷的，铤而走险的，拼命的
  If you aredesperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. He made a desperate attempt to hijack a plane.
     他铤而走险，企图劫持一架飞机。
• ADJ-GRADED 极需要的;渴望的
  If you aredesperate forsomething ordesperate todo something, you want or need it very much indeed.
  1. 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。
  2. People are desperate for him to do something.
     人们极希望他能做点什么。
• ADJ-GRADED 极困难的;极严重的;极危险的
  Adesperatesituation is very difficult, serious, or dangerous.
  1. India's United Nations ambassador said the situation is desperate...
     印度驻联合国大使说形势非常危急。
  2. I decided not to abandon John when he was in such a desperate position.
     我决定不在约翰走投无路的时候抛弃他。

英英释义

adv

• with great urgency
  1. health care reform is needed urgently
  2. the soil desperately needed potash
  Synonym:urgently
• in intense despair
  1. the child clung desperately to her mother

双语例句

• The towns are on the way to becoming agglomerations of desperately poor people
  这些城市正逐渐变为极度贫穷之人的聚居地。
• The hospital is desperately short-staffed.
  这所医院人手极为短缺。
• He desperately dodged a speeding car trying to run him down.
  他拼命地闪身躲开一辆试图撞倒他的疾驰的汽车。
• The enemy tried to resist desperately but lost a large number of guns and men.
  敌人企图负隅顽抗，但却损失惨重。
• He was found desperately trying to untangle several reels of film.
  他被撞见拼命想要解开几盘缠在一起的胶卷。
• The country desperately needs more houses, and the key to the problem, as usual, is money.
  国家极想建造更多的住房，但通常碰到的问题是钱。
• Matthew desperately hacked through the leather.
  马修拼命地将皮革砍穿。
• You will not feel the relief you so desperately seek, if you are dead.
  如果你死了，你就不能感觉到你拼命寻找的解脱了。
• Haig was desperately eager for an affirmative answer
  黑格非常渴望得到一个肯定的回答。
• The banks are now desperately scrabbling to recover their costs
  那些银行正在拼命急于收回成本。