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《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I amnot sure whether I have mentioned that, when Mr. Micawber wasat any particularly desperate crisis, he used a sort of legalphraseology: which he seemed to think equivalent to winding uphis affairs.
-- After many compliments onthis performance, we fell into some general conversation; and as Iwas too full of my desperate intentions to keep my alteredcircumstances to myself, I made them known to Mr. and Mrs.Micawber.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bathsheba was revolving in her mind whether by a bold and desperate rush she could free herself at the risk of leaving her skirt bodily behind her.
-- Out of these say twenty will endeavour to drown the bitterness of despised love in drink; twenty more will mope away their lives without a wish or attempt to make a mark in the world, because they have no ambition apart from their attachment to you; twenty more the susceptible person myself possibly among them will be always draggling after you, getting where they may just see you, doing desperate things.
-- Bathsheba's perturbed meditations by the roadside had ultimately evolved a conclusion that there were only two remedies for the present desperate state of affairs.
-- she whispered with desperate impetuosity.
-- Every conceivable aid, method, stratagem, mechanism, by which these last desperate eight hundred yards could be overpassed by a human being unperceived, was revolved in her busy brain, and dismissed as impracticable.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then I spurred on my animal, striving so to for-get the world, my fears, and more than all, myself or, in a more desperate fashion, I alighted and threw myself on the grass, weighed down by horror and despair.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And then it's generally tosome desperate old widower with a large plantation and a dozen children.
-- His hand on the doorknob, he turned and looked at her, a long, desperate look, as if hewanted to carry away with him every detail of her face and figure.
-- There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankeeassault bloodily repulsed.
-- Surely, things must be in a desperate pass if this rabble of bombproofers, old men and little boyswere being called out!To be sure there were young and able-bodied men in the passing lines, tricked out in the brightuniforms of socially select militia units, plumes waving, sashes dancing.
-- Mad to be away from exploding shells, desperate to get home to the quiet of Tara, sheprayed every night that the baby would arrive the next day, so she would be released from her promise and could leaveAtlanta.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a moment, with the fear of my sister's working me before my eyes, I had a desperate idea of starting round the room in the assumed character of Mr. Pumblechook's chaise-cart.
-- I believe he had been knighted himself for storming the English grammar at the point of the pen, in a desperate address engrossed on vellum, on the occasion of the laying of the first stone of some building or other, and for handing some Royal Personage either the trowel or the mortar.
-- On the other hand, Trabb's boy might worm himself into his intimacy and tell him things; or, reckless and desperate wretch as I knew he could be, might hoot him in the High Street.
-- More than that, he seems to me (I may misjudge him) to be a man of a desperate and fierce character."
-- He would do nothing to make it a desperate venture, and he had very little fear of his safety with such good help.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The case seemed wholly desperate and deplorable; and this magnificent palace would have infal-libly been burnt down to the ground, if, by a presence of mind unusual to me, I had not suddenly thought of an ex-pedient.
-- I said, 'they were fellows of desperate fortunes, forced to fly from the places of their birth on account of their poverty or their crimes.
-- began this desperate voyage on February 15, 1714-15, at I nine o'clock in the morning.
-- After dinner, Don Pedro came to me, and desired to know my reason for so desperate an attempt; assured me, 'he only meant to do me all the service he was able;' and spoke so very movingly, that at last I descended to treat him like an animal which had some little portion of reason.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You probably are not aware that I am here on a public kind of business, preposterous enough in itself, but which I have gone in for, and sworn by, and am supposed to be devoted to in quite a desperate manner?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I do," was my desperate reply.
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