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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The precincts were strewed with the dead wolves, and judging from their numbers, it was evident how violent the attack must have been, and how desperate the resistance.
-- Their situation must indeed be desperate for John Mangles to speak in such authoritative language.
-- They keep further north for Auckland, further south for New Plymouth, and the ship had struck just between these two points, on the desert region of the shores of Ika-na-Mani, a dangerous, difficult coast, and infested by desperate characters.
-- The recollections of the DUNCAN evoked by John Mangles turned Glenarvan's thoughts into their saddest channel; for desperate as his own case was he often forgot it, in vain regret at the fate of his crew.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Dear me!It is a stake for which a man might well play a desperate game.
-- They would be helpless in the hands of a desperate fellow like this Notting Hill criminal, if he could once effect an entrance.
-- 'We must close in on him rapidly, for he is said to be a desperate fellow.
-- 'It may cause him to be more cautious, or it may drive him to desperate measures at once.
-- She glanced at them, and then looked up at us with the set, rigid face of a desperate woman.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, her husband Platon was driven desperate to find some.
-- He seized his paper in a desperate hurry; he fidgeted with it, and tried to sort it, but for a long while his trembling hands could not collect the sheets together.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'All I know is,' said Mr. Losberne, at last: sitting down with a kind of desperate calmness, 'that we must try and carry it off with a bold face.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very little was said by either; Kitty was too much afraid of him to talk; Elizabeth was secretly forming a desperate resolution; and perhaps he might be doing the same.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He told me it was men of desperate fortunes on one hand, or of aspir-ing, superior fortunes on the other, who went abroad upon adventures, to rise by enterprise, and make themselves fa-mous in undertakings of a nature out of the common road; that these things were all either too far above me or too far below me; that mine was the middle state, or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found, by long experience, was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labour and sufferings of the mechanic part of mankind, and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, am-bition, and envy of the upper part of mankind.
-- When I was on the desperate expedition on the desert shores of Africa, I never had so much as one thought of what would become of me, or one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
-- He told me there were two desperate vil-lains among them that it was scarce safe to show any mercy to; but if they were secured, he believed all the rest would return to their duty.
-- As the ship lay almost two leagues from the shore, we had a full view of them as the came, and a plain sight even of their faces; because the tide having set them a little to the east of the other boat, they rowed up under shore, to come to the same place where the other had landed, and where the boat lay; by this means, I say, we had a full view of them, and the captain knew the persons and characters of all the men in the boat, of whom, he said, there were three very honest fellows, who, he was sure, were led into this con-spiracy by the rest, being over-powered and frightened; but that as for the boatswain, who it seems was the chief officer among them, and all the rest, they were as outrageous as any of the ship's crew, and were no doubt made desperate in their new enterprise; and terribly apprehensive he was that they would be too powerful for us.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sort of desperate calmness with which this was said, lasted no longer than while she spoke, and was immediately followed by a return of the same excessive affliction.
-- Such were my reasonings, as, in a sort of desperate carelessness, I copied my wife's words, and parted with the last relics of Marianne.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So long, also, will the atmosphere of this realm work its desperate results in the soul of man.
-- The game of a desperate man had begun.
-- There were a lot of green hands around--queer, hungry-looking men, who looked as if want had driven them to desperate means.
-- This put desperate thoughts in the minds of the men.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Just then a desperate cry was heard.
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