| 词汇 | desperately |
| 释义 | desperately adverb uk /ˈdes.pər.ət.li/ us /ˈdes.pɚ.ət.li/ desperatelyadverb (SERIOUSLY)B2 extremely or very much: 极其;非常 He was desperately ill.他病得很重。 They desperately wanted a child.他们特别想要一个孩子。 UKShe always seems to be desperately busy!她似乎总是特别忙！ UKHe was desperately in love with her.他疯狂地爱上了她。 Linguistics: very & extreme abjectly absolutely abundantly abundantly clear beyond biblical downright extraordinarily extremely infinitely particularly richly stupefyingly super super-duper super-spectacular superabundantly totally violently whatever desperatelyadverb (TAKING RISKS)B2 in a way that shows you are frightened and ready to try anything to change a situation: （因绝望而）拼命地;孤注一掷地 They fought desperately for their lives.他们为了活命而拼命搏斗。 Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.医生想尽一切办法缩小她脑部的肿块。 Blake looked ridiculous, and I tried desperately to keep a straight face. The rescuers could hear the sound of the trapped people desperately trying to claw their way through the rubble.救援人员可以听到被困人员的动静，他们拼命想从废墟中用手扒出一条生路来。 The flood has left villagers and animals desperately scavenging for food. He wanted that job desperately, and was devastated when he failed to get it. Dangers and threats balefully baneful banefully black spot hang hang over something hazard hazardous hazardously non-lethal on/under pain of deathidiom or elseidiom parlous parlously someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom threateningly tombstoning treacherously triple threat ultra-hazardous desperately | American Dictionarydesperately adverb us/ˈdes·pər·ət·li/ extremely or very much: For years they had desperately wanted a child. Examples of desperatelydesperately Although there is nothing desperately original about the basics of the exercises, they are well-dressed, with an historical twist. The distresses of the war were thus aggravated by a tighter administration of the counties required by a parliament desperately short of money. Desperately poor people, pensioners, working men, minorities eat it up. The timely collection and transmission of comparable information between and to states, federal agencies and other relevant groups is desperately needed. At any rate it will remain ' desperately poor ', and therefore dependent. They were desperately hungry, he wrote, being allowed less food than other prisoners in the same gaol. There is no need to speculate desperately before these data become available. Moreover, these lacunae demonstrate how desperately dated in concept the book is. Representatives of each organisation were present in every camp, desperately trying to win new members. You strain desperately through your telescope for the answer. Rebels searched desperately for magistrates, judges and lawyers of the government's prosecution team. Otherwise, these ideas will remain floating in a turbulent sea of interesting dynamical principles desperately seeking an attractor within empirically verifiable cognitive theory. The state government had thus every reason to be desperately worried by the economic and social consequences of the continuing influx of refugees. How desperately this man wanted to paper over the fissures in his narrative. Instead, they try to avoid that role even to the point of adamantly denying their involvement in a choice they desperately want implemented. See all examples of desperately These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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