We are desperate to get this country through the recession and into recovery and that is what I intend to continue to do."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

Thank you. I just feel like in the situation that desperate, you have to do what you have to do to survive.

谢谢，我只是认为,在那样的绝境下，为了生存，你不得不那样做。

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But if I'm poor and I'm desperate, like I might commit a crime to feed my family and that can affect others.

但如果我又穷又绝望，我就可能会为了养家糊口而犯罪,那就影响到别人了。

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The U.N.refugee agency says Somalis desperate to flee war, drought and poverty in their country continue to risk their lives by taking the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Like, in a situation that desperate, you have to do what you have to do to survive.

在那样的绝境之下，为了生存，你不得不那样做。

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"This is an opportunity to help a neighbor in need, in desperate need, and to do it with swiftness, expertise,generosity and love."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

This time, you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients, each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive.

这次你是一名器官移植医生，你有五名病人，每名病人都急需器官移植才能存活。

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Mahecic says thousands of desperate Somalis continue to risk their lives and use unscrupulous smugglers to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

The much-criticized electoral commission chairman Maurice Iwu blames a desperate political class motivated largely by a desire to enjoy the profits of office for Nigeria's electoral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

"Rather than being a mechanism of cooperation,of joint fact-finding, of assistance to one another, it became another focal point for animosity and a failure,really, to work together to solve the desperate needs of both peoples."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01