单词 | desperately |
释义 | des·per·ate·ly 1. a. < became desperately ill with pneumonia > < the old fixation, the result of 14 years together, still desperately influences her mind and body — Leslie Rees > b. < 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. < the tough cruel but desperately brave Arab slavers — Rodney Gilbert > d. < 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 < desperately ambitious to make up for lost time — Gerald Priestland > < I wanted desperately to be popular > 2. a. < desperately poor, they lived mostly on fat pork and cornbread > < all houses and cellars were desperately overcrowded — J.H.Plumb > b. < 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. < it darkens toward the end and winds up in a desperately contrived coincidence — Time > |
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