desperate是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 绝望的; 不顾一切的; 危急的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curios-ity.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This favoured the desperate resolution Charles Darnay had begun to make, that he would go to Paris.
-- 'In short,' said Sydney, 'this is a desperate time, when desperate games are played for desperate stakes.
-- 435We are all desperate here.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You've not answered my question, though," he went on, with a desperate effort looking Oblonsky straight in the face.
-- She lifted her clear, truthful eyes, and seeing his desperate face, she answered hastily: "That cannot be...forgive me."
-- He dashed down the stairs to her, in spite of the governess's call, and with desperate joy shrieked: "Mother!mother!"
-- She was vexed, too, that from all she could learn of this connection it was not that brilliant, graceful, worldly liaison which she would have welcomed, but a sort of Wertherish, desperate passion, so she was told, which might well lead him into imprudence.
-- and with desperate determination she pressed his hand with her cold hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- cried John Bunsby, pushing back the rudder with a desperate jerk.
-- Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort to the desperate expedient of suicide, Passepartout kept a narrow watch upon his master, though he carefully concealed the appearance of so doing.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He caught her hand; in a desperate burst he tried to kiss her.
-- "Being called to attend the little daughter of Henry Norwalk of near Delft the well-known farmer and finding the little one near death with diphtheria he made a desperate attempt to save it by himself bringing antitoxin from Blassner our ever popular druggist, who had on hand a full and fresh supply.
-- He was flustered when he tried to prepare his notes, and on the morning of the affair he was chill as he remembered the dreadful thing he would do this day, but he was desperate with embarrassment when he came up to the Star of Hope Church.
-- The Ice House, that dimmest and most peaceful among saloons, with its cool marble tables, its gilt- touched white walls, had not been closed, though only the oldest topers and the youngest bravos, fresh out from Home and agonizingly lonely for Peckham or Walthamstow, for Peel Park or the Cirencester High Street, were desperate enough to go there, and of the attendants there remained only one big Jamaica barman.
-- His voice echoed in a desperate silence.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He glanced with a defiant and desperate air at the porter, who without a word held out a grey folded paper sealed with bottle-wax.
-- All he knew, all he felt was that everything must be changed 'one way or another,' he repeated with desperate and immovable self-confidence and determination.
-- The murderer seems to have been a desperate fellow, he risked everything in open daylight, was saved by a miracle but his hands shook, too.
-- He held out his hand and shook hands, still apparent-ly making desperate efforts to subdue his mirth and utter a few words to introduce himself.
-- Pyotr Petrovitch ground his teeth and at the same time once more he had a gleam of desperate hope.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have already observed that I don't know how this desperate ideacame into my brain.
-- When he was gone, I rang for Mrs. Crupp, and acquainted her withmy desperate design.
-- I had it in mythoughts to remonstrate with him upon his desperate way ofpursuing any fancy that he took- such as this buffeting of roughseas, and bracing of hard weather, for example- when my mindglanced off to the immediate subject of our conversation again, andpursued that instead.
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