| 单词 | desperately |
| 释义 | desperately (once / 476 pages) adv When you do something desperately you do it with extreme urgency. If faced with a life-and-death situation, you might fight desperately, using any means possible to overcome the obstacles and survive. The undercurrent of the adverb desperately is one of despair, which makes sense when you consider that it comes from the Latin desperatus, meaning "given up or despaired of." You can get a good sense of the word from its context in Journalist Sheilah Graham’s statement, "You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world." WORD FAMILYdesperate: desperately, desperates, desperatest, desperation+/desperation: desperations USAGE EXAMPLESEnergy-efficiency rules are desperately needed to improve air quality, combat global warming and to enable America to meet its domestic and international goals. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) At the time of his son's death, Mr Scully-Sloan was also desperately ill with liver disease and awaiting a transplant. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) With blitzing linebacker Reuben Foster bearing down on him, Browning desperately heaved a pass into the flats for Lavon Coleman. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1adv with great urgency the soil desperately needed potash Syn urgently 2adv in intense despair the child clung desperately to her mother |
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