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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Epeans were beleaguering the city and were deter-mined to take it, but ere this might be there was a desperate fight in store for them.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Attempts were At Once made to secure him, but casting off his garments, it says, he succeeded in escaping, but not until after a desperate struggle, in which he had inflicted serious injuries, it says, on our worthy and able constable, Mr. J.
-- He heard it and made one last desperate spurt.
-- I made one last desperate turn and found myself among lamps and ironmongery.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I perceived the Thing would come up with me long before I reached the enclosure, and, desperate and sobbing for my breath, I wheeled round upon it and struck at it as it came up to me, struck with all my strength.
-- Presently the ground gave rich and oozy under my feet; but I was desperate and went headlong into it, struggled through kneedeep, and so came to a winding path among tall canes.
-- But, as I say, I was too full of excitement and (a true saying, though those who have never known danger may doubt it) too desperate to die.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A long, a vigorous, and, as it appeared to the females, a desperate effort, closed the struggle.
-- A desperate and fruitless struggle to recover the branch succeeded, and then the savage was seen for a fleeting instant, grasping wildly at the empty air.
-- Grown desperate by his situation, he drew nigh the slight barrier which separated him only by a few feet from his re-lentless pursuers, and placing his face to the casual opening, he even looked out with a sort of desperate indifference, on their movements.
-- The young soldier made a desperate but fruitless effort to spring to the side of Alice, when he saw the dark hand of a savage twisted in the rich tresses which were flowing in volumes over her shoulders, while a knife was passed around the head from which they fell, as if to de-note the horrid manner in which it was about to be robbed of its beautiful ornament.
-- Heyward threw himself between the sisters and the foremost, whom he grappled with a desperate strength that for a moment checked his violence.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It seemed hardly likely if, as appeared, he had been taking steps for a year to make his desperate plunge.
-- Here they made friends with others in as desperate condition as themselves, and when they were penniless and the night was bitter cold, they were glad to borrow from anyone who had earned a stray franc during the day the price of a roof over their heads.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As soon as he could get a regular weapon, that is to say, one of the guns which Pencroft begged for, Gideon Spilett resolved to make desperate war against the ferocious beasts, and exterminate them from the island.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With which defiances the dwarf flourished his cudgel, and dancing round the combatants and treading upon them and skipping over them, in a kind of frenzy, laid about him, now on one and now on the other, in a most desperate manner, always aiming at their heads and dealing such blows as none but the veriest little savage would have inflicted.
-- While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter?'
-- Regardless of the run of luck, and mindful only of the desperate passion which had its hold upon her grandfather, losses and gains were to her alike.
-- It matters little to me where I live, and I had a desperate hope that some intelligence might be cast in my way there, which would not reach me elsewhere.
-- The constable, taking warning by this desperate attack, and thinking perhaps that it would be more satisfactory to the ends of justice if the prisoner were taken before a magistrate, whole, rather than in small pieces, led him back to the hackney-coach without more ado, and moreover insisted on Miss Brass becoming an outside passenger; to which proposal the charming creature, after a little angry discussion, yielded her consent; and so took her brother Sampson's place upon the box: Mr Brass with some reluctance agreeing to occupy her seat inside.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "By the way, they say that Kamenskaia is in a desperate condition; her life is despaired of," she turned to her husband.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It gave under my desperate onset and turned over.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Hatta made a desperate effort, and swallowed a large piece of bread-and-butter.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- These fellows who attacked the inn tonight bold, desperate blades, for sure and the rest who stayed aboard that lugger, and more, I dare say, not far off, are, one and all, through thick and thin, bound that they'll get that money.
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