I am desperate for a cigarette.

我极想抽一支烟。

The desperate bandit's firing at the police!

那个亡命的匪徒正朝着警察开枪!

The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.

这个城市严重缺水。

They made a desperate attempt to save the company.

他们为挽救公司作孤注一掷的努力。

The government is desperate to regain credibility with the public.

政府急于重新获取公众的信任。

We never cherish any unrealistic fancies about those desperate criminals.

我们对那些亡命的罪犯从来不抱任何不切实际的幻想。

The urban homeless are often in desperate need of sustenance.

城市里无家可归的人极其需要食物来维持生命。

A desperate tiredness set in after hours of anxious waiting.

数小时的焦急等待之后，整个人变得精疲力竭。

He is desperate to pursue his vocation as an artist.

他不顾一切地从事艺术的职业。

He careened through foreign territories on a desperate kind of blitz.

在孤注一掷地闪电战中他猛冲过外国领地。

Disremembering because of love, desperated because of affectionateness, placidity because of spoony.

相忘是因为有情，绝情是因为深情，平淡是因为痴情。

The report limned a desperate situation.

那报道描述出一个严重的情况。

It would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that I’m desperate to leave.

说我渴望离开是有点夸张。

He is a desperate criminal.

他是个亡命之徒。

They're desperate to escape.

他们急于想逃跑。

He's desperate for money.

他极渴望得到钱。

The women's volleyball team put up a desperate fight to win the world championship at all costs.

女子排球队为赢得世界冠军而不惜一切代价, 殊死拼搏。

The losing gamester,in hopes of retrieving past misfortunes,goes on from bad to worse,till growing desperate,he pushes at everything and loses his all.

他感到绝望，不顾一切下注，结果血本无归。

Leslie Cheung danced before us, alluringly, and only let the seventh veil drop last week, revealing the desperate child beneath the diva's brilliant plumage.

张国荣在我们面前起舞，让我们心神荡漾，直到上周，他才将第七重纱取下，让我们看到那个隐藏在伶人光鲜羽衣之下的绝望孩童。

Not once was Benfica keeper Quim called upon to save him team, even in the desperate last few minutes when a goal would have sealed United's passage into the Champions League knock-out phase.

本菲卡的门将Quim不止一次地拯救了球队，甚至在比赛的最后阶段，当曼联的射门几乎要为球队获得参加淘汰赛资格时，是他拯救了本菲卡。