in desperation

基本解释

In desperation, he decided to go back to London.
在绝望中，他决定还是回伦敦去。
In desperation, he told me, he had contacted several patients who had already undergone a transplant.
他告诉我，他在绝望中联系了已经做过移植手术的几位病人。
Another time you were walking in the Thomasgässchen with an umbrella up, and you avoided me in desperation.
另外一次，在托马斯巷中，你手撑雨伞，正往前走，忽望见我，于是满脸绝望地避开。

But humans continue their violent and evil ways, And in desperation, God wipes them out, and starts again.
但人类继续他们暴力邪恶的行径，绝望时，上帝将他们消灭，重新开始。
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My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.
我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“
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Again,getting rid of the negative does not guarantee us the positive, which is why already in the 1940s, wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.
再强调一次，摆脱消极,不能保证我们变得积极，因此早在19世纪40年代，认为，大多数人都活在沉默的压抑中。
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The party under threat looks around in desperation, searching for someone to offer up as a sacrifice.
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