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单词 desperately
释义 des·per·ate·ly
\-pərtlē, -p(ə)rə̇t-, -li\ adverb
1. : in a desperate manner:
 a. : so as to leave little hope (as of recovery or escape) : dangerously
  < became desperately ill with pneumonia >
  < the old fixation, the result of 14 years together, still desperately influences her mind and body — Leslie Rees >
 b. : with an intensified or all-out last-ditch effort in refusal to give up a struggle or purpose
  < desperately fighting asthma >
  < figures struggling desperately among the countless corpses that floated in the heavy sea — H.E.Rieseberg >
  < grasping desperately at any straw to stave off starvation >
 c. : to utter indifference to consequences or danger : with reckless abandon
  < the tough cruel but desperately brave Arab slavers — Rodney Gilbert >
 d. : with a degree of obligation or pressure of necessity not to be denied or delayed : urgently, indispensably, compellingly
  < I emphasize the religious element in our national inheritance because I believe it is the one which desperately needs to be reexamined and recovered — Ruth Suckow >
  < desperately needed potash in the soil >
 also : with unyielding insistence
  < desperately ambitious to make up for lost time — Gerald Priestland >
  < I wanted desperately to be popular >
2.
 a. : to such a degree or such a degree of intensity as to bring dismay or distress close to despair : appallingly, frightfully, shockingly
  < desperately poor, they lived mostly on fat pork and cornbread >
  < all houses and cellars were desperately overcrowded — J.H.Plumb >
 b. : to a superlative degree : extremely, intensely
  < one must get desperately tired of a climate which knows no winter or summer — Vernon Bartlett >
  < never was the need for the proper discharge of this task so desperately urgent — Publ's Mod. Lang. Association of American >
  < consistently entertaining, and at times it is, in fact, desperately funny — C.J.Rolo >
  < I'm desperately sorry, sir >
 c. : with undue complication of detail or protraction : tortuously
  < it darkens toward the end and winds up in a desperately contrived coincidence — Time >
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