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desperate

英 ['desp(ə)rət] 美['dɛspərət]

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adj. 不顾一切的；令人绝望的；极度渴望的

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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.

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.

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

They are in desperate need of financial assistance.

I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.

The company also embarked on a desperate cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.

But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.

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.

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.

"The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation," said USFWS director Daniel Ashe.

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.

Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate.

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

Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.