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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We took our way through poor and sparse meadows, which made a desperate effort every year to show a little green.
-- I was fairly launched on a desperate course, and all I had to do was to go forward hopefully and trustingly.
-- He appeared to be struggling with desperate energy against the impossible.
-- But Hans appeared not to take the slightest interest in what was really a question of life and death for us all, but waited quite ready to obey the signal which should say go aloft, or to resume his desperate journey into the interior of the earth.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An outcast, in a certain sense; but with the desperate bravery of his rat-like existence.
-- ' he ended with a desperate note of cynicism.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Both are conventionally compared with death; but the difference is the whole deep gulf between the struggle done, and the fight at its most desperate extremity.
-- 'I couldn't,' said Mr Sparkler, after feeling his pulse as before, 'couldn't undertake to say what led to it 'cause memory desperate loose.
-- Thenceforth the Dowager, with a light and careless humour, often recounted to her particular acquaintance how, after a hard trial, she had found it impossible to know those people who belonged to Henry's wife, and who had made that desperate set to catch him.
-- Some of the rest lingered a little, marrying golden liqueur glasses to Buhl tables with sticky rings; on the desperate chance of Mr Merdle's saying something.
-- Confident in the rectitude of his purpose, and impelled by a sense of overhanging danger closing in around, he resolved, if his mother would still admit of no approach, to make a desperate appeal to Affery.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'By the way, Jo, I think that little Parker is really getting desperate about Amy.
-- Laurie looked at her a minute as if he did not quite know what to do with himself, then turned sharply away, saying in a desperate sort of tone, 'You'll be sorry some day, Jo.'
-- I wasn't meant for a life like this, and I know I shall break away and do something desperate if somebody doesn't come and help me,' she said to herself, when her first efforts failed and she fell into the moody, mis-erable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.
-- Well, that sounds paradisiacal, but you'll find it desperate hard work.'
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the captain at last relented, and told him he might make himself at home.
-- Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.
-- Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
-- How wildly it heightens the effect of that passage in Froissart, when, masked in the snowy symbol of their faction, the desperate White Hoods of Ghent murder their bailiff in the market-place!
-- On the fifth morning three others of the mutineers bolted up into the air from the desperate arms below that sought to restrain them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery.
-- 'You're desperate hard upon me, gen'l'men,' said Gamfield, wavering.
-- As Sikes growled forth this imprecation, with the most desperate ferocity that his desperate nature was capable of, he rested the body of the wounded boy across his bended knee; and turned his head, for an instant, to look back at his pursuers.
-- He didn't make a very desperate resistance, miss!I was soon too many for him.'
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