Desperation的意思|Desperation的解释-里氏词典

desperation [`dɛspə'reʃən]

n. 绝望

I drop into desperation.
我陷入绝望。
In desperation I pleaded with the attackers.
绝望之下，我向攻击者哀求。
The prisoner clawed at the cell door in desperation.
囚犯绝望地乱抓牢房的门.

desperation

[ noun ]

a state in which all hope is lost or absent

<noun.state>

in the depths of despair

they were rescued from despair at the last minute

courage born of desperation

desperate recklessness

<noun.attribute>

it was a policy of desperation

Desperation \Des`per*a"tion\, n. [L. desperatio: cf. OF.
desperation.]
1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up
of hope.

This desperation of success chills all our industry.
--Hammond.

2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of
hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.

In the desperation of the moment, the officers even
tried to cut their way through with their swords.
--W. Irving.

The Dalai Lama, in a statement from his office in New Delhi, Monday said the violence clearly revealed the "desperation" of the Tibetan people.
Another job for the US secretary of state, Mr James Baker, perhaps? If you are playing Dodge The Demagogues with more and more desperation and less and less success you might think of turning to radio.
Industry officials acknowledge that the campaign is born of desperation.
Democrats see the Tower incident as a sign of desperation on the part of Daub, who trailed Exon in polls published before the Tower remarks.
But surely neither acts of desperation nor lofty removal from dealing with the reality of the Arab-Israeli conflict can address Palestinian nationalism in a meaningful, non-violent way.
His desperation assailed me far more forcefully than his words.
But Chrysler officials insist they want to avoid taking that costly step, partly because they fear investors would see it as an act of desperation.
"I think you are seeing an absolute desperation move," said Metropolitan's San Antonio attorney, Seagal V. Wheatley. "What you have is a straight-forward loan.
A further hurdle would be potential vetoes by the Soviet Union or the U.S. Advocates of a peacekeeping force argue that the Soviets might refrain to avoid a desperation plea by Mozambique for military support.
"The Tamil terrorists are on the run into the jungles, and in desperation they want to kill as many as possible before they get killed," Wijeratne said.
Three people jumped to their deaths in desperation and 21 others died from burns or asphyxiation.
A spokesman for Feinstein called Van de Kamp's attack a sign of desperation in the wake of the most recent poll on the June 5 Democratic primary, in which the former mayor pulled ahead of the attorney general.
Gazette on coal strike violence: United Mine Workers members who struck the Pittston Coal Group companies justly felt desperation.
To attract overseas investors it could issue gilts redeemable in D-Marks at a guaranteed exchange rate. Such innovations might give the impression of desperation.
He can't see she is as desperate as the young man is and their desperation is very similar.
"It bespeaks, if not an act of desperation, a very serious attempt to bolster the profit of their catalog program."
It was spontaneity based upon desperation.
This is the rhetoric of desperation politics.
The violently bad blood between Greyhound Lines Inc. and striking drivers reveals more than just a sense of worker desperation in a troubled money-losing business.
What we do know is that her claims were solicited, leaked and promoted by Judge Thomas's enemies, whose desperation to stop a black conservative marks a new low for this Senate.
One-dimensionally noble at first, he develops into a complex mix of desperation, calculation and pride.
"I never thought anyone could sink so low _ neither my adversary, nor this woman," da Silva said. "If I erred, I want the people to judge me." His camp attributed the attacks to desperation by Collor de Mello.
That prospect lends an air of desperation to their tactics and heightens the temptation to lash out at the opposition, especially those leading in the polls.
Martin seems almost complacent and without that desperation needed to convey the author's sense of futility about life.
To Mr Bush's critics and to the Clinton campaign this smacks of desperation.
His desperation and determination to find her lead him into the Parisian underworld and an unlikely alliance with a young French girl of dubious morals (Emmanuelle Seigner).
In its most recent editions, the German magazine Stern painted a baleful picture of desperation, suicides, mysterious deaths and extortion among Soviet troops in Germany.
If General Colin Powell, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and Gulf war hero, ran with Mr Bush it might be easy to argue that ditching Mr Quayle was not an act of desperation.
It will be born, he said, out of "Palestinian desperation, a lack of hope." From the December 1987 start of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation, leaders of the revolt discouraged the use of firearms and attacks on Jews inside Israel.
He calls the fee a "desperation move."

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