desperately

1. ADJ-GRADED （因绝望而）孤注一掷的，铤而走险的，拼命的
   If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
   1. Troops are needed to help get food into Kosovo where people are in desperate need...
      需要军队帮助将科索沃人民亟需的食品送抵那里。
   2. Desperate with anxiety, Bob and Hans searched the whole house...
      焦急万分的鲍勃和汉斯把整座房子找了个遍。
   3. He made a desperate attempt to hijack a plane.
      他铤而走险，企图劫持一架飞机。
2. ADJ-GRADED 极需要的;渴望的
   If you are desperate for something or desperate to do something, you want or need it very much indeed.
   1. They'd been married nearly four years and June was desperate to start a family...
      他们结婚已快4年了，琼非常渴望要个孩子。
   2. People are desperate for him to do something.
      人们极希望他能做点什么。
3. ADJ-GRADED 极困难的;极严重的;极危险的
   A desperate situation is very difficult, serious, or dangerous.
   1. India's United Nations ambassador said the situation is desperate...
      印度驻联合国大使说形势非常危急。
   2. I decided not to abandon John when he was in such a desperate position.
      我决定不在约翰走投无路的时候抛弃他。

1. Haig was desperately eager for an affirmative answer
   黑格非常渴望得到一个肯定的回答。
2. The towns are on the way to becoming agglomerations of desperately poor people
   这些城市正逐渐变为极度贫穷之人的聚居地。
3. He desperately dodged a speeding car trying to run him down.
   他拼命地闪身躲开一辆试图撞倒他的疾驰的汽车。
4. I spent a fruitless ten minutes walking up and down the high street, desperately avoiding eye contact with passers-by.
   我在大街上一无所获来回走了10分钟，其间还要拼命地躲避路人的目光。
5. I desperately fought the urge to giggle
   我拼命地想忍住笑。
6. Scores of people tried desperately to gatecrash the party
   很多不速之客拼命想要挤进这个聚会。
7. They grappled desperately for control of the weapon.
   他们疯狂扭打，想把武器抢到手。
8. Matthew desperately hacked through the leather.
   马修拼命地将皮革砍穿。
9. Lewis desperately needs to keep clear of Ruddock's big left hook.
   刘易斯无论如何得躲开拉多克凌厉的左钩拳才行。
10. The Ministry desperately tried to hush up the whole affair.
    部里拼命想隐瞒整个事件。
11. I desperately needed something to occupy me during those long, lonely nights.
    在那一个个漫长、孤单的夜晚，我极需找点事做。
12. His gross mismanagement left the company desperately in need of restructuring.
    他管理上的重大失误使公司陷入亟须重组的境地。
13. He desperately needed money
    他迫切需要钱。
14. His country desperately needs Western aid to restore its ailing economy.
    他的国家急需西方援助以复苏其不景气的经济。
15. The banks are now desperately scrabbling to recover their costs
    那些银行正在拼命急于收回成本。
16. It is desperately sad news and I am absolutely shattered to hear it.
    这是个令人悲痛欲绝的消息，我听后彻底崩溃了。
17. The hospital is desperately short-staffed.
    这所医院人手极为短缺。
18. I struggled with my bags, desperately looking for a porter.
    我提着行李艰难地走着，迫切地寻找着搬运工。
19. It really is desperately unfortunate that this should have happened just now.
    刚才竟发生这样的事儿，实在是太不合时宜了。
20. Her marriage is in trouble and she is desperately unhappy
    她的婚姻陷入困境，她为此非常郁闷。
21. I think she feels desperately wounded and unloved at the moment.
    我想她此刻定会觉得受到了极大的伤害，无人关爱。
22. He was found desperately trying to untangle several reels of film.
    他被撞见拼命想要解开几盘缠在一起的胶卷。
23. The enemy tried to resist desperately but lost a large number of guns and men.
    敌人企图负隅顽抗，但却损失惨重。
24. The country desperately needs more houses, and the key to the problem, as usual, is money.
    国家极想建造更多的住房，但通常碰到的问题是钱。
25. She desperately wanted to win her father's approval.
    她急不可待地想赢得父亲的赞同。
26. The soldiers fought desperately, but the enemy closed in from all sides.
    士兵们虽拼死而战，敌人还是从四面八方把他们团团围住。
27. I need someone who needs me desperately. You are much too independent.
    我需要一个极其需要我的人。你太独立了。
28. You will not feel the relief you so desperately seek, if you are dead.
    如果你死了，你就不能感觉到你拼命寻找的解脱了。

adv

1. with great urgency
   1. health care reform is needed urgently
   2. the soil desperately needed potash

   Synonym:    urgently

2. in intense despair
   1. the child clung desperately to her mother