desperation是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 绝望，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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last in the desperation of my position, my mind turned to the animal men I had encountered.
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：
-- He then seated himself in the cen-ter of the cavern, grasping his remaining pistol with a hand convulsively clenched, while his contracted and frowning eye announced the sullen desperation of his purpose.
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：
-- She rushed at the children, shouted at them, coaxed them, told them before the crowd how to dance and what to sing, began explaining to them why it was neces-sary, and driven to desperation by their not understanding, beat them芒聙娄.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Although I left the office at half-past three,and was prowling about the place of appointment within a fewminutes afterwards, the appointed time was exceeded by a fullquarter of an hour, according to the clock of St. Andrew's,Holborn, before I could muster up sufficient desperation to pull theprivate bell-handle let into the left-hand door-post of Mr.Waterbrook's house.
-- You will allow me, as a privateindividual, to decline pursuing a subject which has lashed me tothe utmost verge of desperation in my professional capacity.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A rickety table, with spare bundles of papers, yellow and ragged from long carriage in the pocket, ostentatiously displayed upon its top; a couple of stools set face to face on opposite sides of this crazy piece of furniture; a treacherous old chair by the fire-place, whose withered arms had hugged full many a client and helped to squeeze him dry; a second-hand wig box, used as a depository for blank writs and declarations and other small forms of law, once the sole contents of the head which belonged to the wig which belonged to the box, as they were now of the box itself; two or three common books of practice; a jar of ink, a pounce box, a stunted hearth-broom, a carpet trodden to shreds but still clinging with the tightness of desperation to its tacks these, with the yellow wainscot of the walls, the smoke-discoloured ceiling, the dust and cobwebs, were among the most prominent decorations of the office of Mr Sampson Brass.
-- In his desperation and restlessness Kit cast his eyes about the chapel, and happening to let them fall upon a little seat in front of the clerk's desk, could scarcely believe them when they showed him Quilp!
-- But now, all other considerations were lost in the new uncertainties and anxieties of their wild and wandering life; and the very desperation of their condition roused and stimulated her.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was proof against her malice, and in desperation she spoke to him and of him slightingly before the other lodgers, who began to amuse themselves at his expense, and so gratified her desire for revenge.
-- Eugene, in the blind desperation that drives a young man to plunge deeper and deeper into an abyss, as if he might hope to find a fortunate issue in its lowest depths, nodded in reply to the driver's signal, and stepped into the cab; a few stray petals of orange blossom and scraps of wire bore witness to its recent occupation by a wedding party.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This Ashley Wilkes in his faded, patched uniform, his blond hair bleached tow by summer suns, was a differentman from the easy-going, drowsy-eyed boy she had loved to desperation before the war.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said I, stopping before Herbert, with my open hands held out, as if they contained the desperation of the case.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am desperately intent;' the languor of his desperation being quite tropical; 'on your softening towards your sister which you ought to do; and on your being a more loving and agreeable sort of brother which you ought to be.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'My precious child,' returned Fanny, 'I can't possibly answer for what an idiot in a state of desperation may do, but I should think it highly probable.
-- The agony into which the reflection wrought his mind was so distressing to see, that Mr Pancks took hold of himself by the hair of his head, and tore it in desperation at the spectacle.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the desperation of her feelings, she resolved on one effort more, and, turning to Elizabeth, said: 'Miss Eliza Bennet, let me persuade you to follow my ex-ample, and take a turn about the room.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Marianne began now to perceive that the desperation which had seized her at sixteen and a half, of ever seeing a man who could satisfy her ideas of perfection, had been rash and unjustifiable.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now desperation seized him, and for a day or two, going out thus, he lived like a gentleman--or what he conceived to be a gentleman--which took money.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In desperation the smaller of the two Assassins pulled out a long knife from his pocket, and tried to pry Pinocchio's mouth open with it.
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