desperate
英 ['desp(ə)rət]
美['dɛspərət]
- adj. 不顾一切的；令人绝望的；极度渴望的
词态变化
副词: desperately;
助记提示
1. de- "without" + sper- "hope" + -ate (形容词后缀) => 字面含义：without hope, lose all hope. => 既然没有希望了，当然就绝望了。
2. 看过美剧《绝望的主妇》（Desperate Housewives）的人，肯定很容易记住这个单词，该剧曾是全球收视率最高的电视剧，曾多次夺得美国单周收视排行榜冠军，并横扫美国各大颁奖典礼上的多个奖项。推荐没看过该剧的朋友们去看一看。
2. 看过美剧《绝望的主妇》（Desperate Housewives）的人，肯定很容易记住这个单词，该剧曾是全球收视率最高的电视剧，曾多次夺得美国单周收视排行榜冠军，并横扫美国各大颁奖典礼上的多个奖项。推荐没看过该剧的朋友们去看一看。
中文词源
desperate 绝望的，铤而走险的
来自despair, 绝望。
英英释意
- 1. a person who is frightened and in need of help;
- "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
英文词源
- desperate (adj.)
- early 15c., "despairing, hopeless," from Latin desperatus "given up, despaired of," past participle of desperare (see despair (v.)). Sense of "driven to recklessness" is from late 15c.; weakened sense of "having a great desire for" is from 1950s. Related: Desperately.
考试真题
- For workers, especially low-paid workers, who desperately need their jobs yet know they can be easily replaced, gamification may feel more like the Hunger Games.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
- The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
出自-2012年12月阅读原文
- They are in desperate need of financial assistance.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
- I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.
2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A
- The company also embarked on a desperate cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.
2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A
- But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.
2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文
- The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.
2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
- Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文
- "The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation," said USFWS director Daniel Ashe.
2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
- Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.
2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
- Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate.
2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
- The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f
2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
- Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.
2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ
词组搭配
desperate diseases must have desperate remedies
(proverb)extreme measures are justified as a response to a difficult or dangerous situation
(谚)重症还得猛药治；对困难或危险的处境可以采取极端的措施
实用场景例句
- She looked desperately around for a weapon.
- 她在四下里找，急于弄到一件武器。
牛津词典
- They desperately wanted a child.
- 他们非常想要一个孩子。
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- I was absolutely desperate to see her.
- 我极想见到她。
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- (informal)I'm desperate for a cigarette.
- 我很想抽支烟。
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- The children are in desperate need of love and attention.
- 这些孩子非常需要爱心和关怀。
牛津词典
- They face a desperate shortage of clean water.
- 他们面临无污染水源的严重短缺。
牛津词典
- desperately ill/unhappy/lonely
- 病得厉害；极为不快；极其孤独
牛津词典
- He took a deep breath, desperately trying to keep calm.
- 他深深地吸了口气，竭尽全力保持镇定。
牛津词典
- a desperate bid for freedom
- 孤注一掷争取自由的努力
牛津词典
- She clung to the edge in a desperate attempt to save herself.
- 为了活命，她拼命抓住边缘。
牛津词典
- His increasing financial difficulties forced him to take desperate measures .
- 不断增加的经济困难迫使他采取了铤而走险的办法。
牛津词典
- Doctors were fighting a desperate battle to save the little girl's life.
- 医生们不惜一切地奋力抢救小女孩的生命。
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- He was so desperate for a job he would have done anything.
- 他当时太想找份工作了，什么事都愿意干。
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- I heard sounds of a desperate struggle in the next room.
- 我听到隔壁房间里有拼命挣扎的声音。
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- The prisoners grew increasingly desperate.
- 犯人因绝望而越来越胆大妄为。
牛津词典
- Stores are getting desperate after two years of poor sales.
- 两年来销路不畅，商店不惜冒起险来。
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- Somewhere out there was a desperate man, cold, hungry, hunted.
- 那外面有个男人又冷又饿，还有人抓他，走投无路了。
牛津词典
- People are desperate for him to do something.
- 人们极希望他能做点什么。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- 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。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The class will debate on matters of mutual concern.
- 全班将讨论一些共同关心的话题.
期刊摘选
- The enemy grew desperate at the defeat.
- 敌人因战败而拼死挣扎.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The prisoners grew more desperate.
- 囚犯们在绝望中更加不顾死活了.
《简明英汉词典》
- He's desperate for money.
- 他极渴望得到钱.
《简明英汉词典》
- They made a desperate attempt to save the company.
- 他们为挽救公司作孤注一掷的努力.
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