There was a note of desperation in his voice.

听他的语气他急得要命。

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For less sanguine investors, the idea of going cap in hand to China smacked of desperation.

在不那么乐观的投资者看来，绝望的时候才会对中国磕头下跪。

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I could tell she hastily wrote it in a state of desperation, since it’s filled with misspellings, flighty run-on sentences, and profanity.

我看得出来，她是在一种绝望的状态下匆匆写下这封邮件的，因为邮件里面有很多的拼写错误，随意的断句，甚至一些不太尊敬的语言。

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My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

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Again,getting rid of the negative does not guarantee us the positive, which is why already in the 1940s, wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

再强调一次，摆脱消极,不能保证我们变得积极，因此早在19世纪40年代，认为，大多数人都活在沉默的压抑中。

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The sense of desperation in the face of a failed impeachment inquiry is palpable.

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In an act of desperation this past summer, Foursquare finally observed the death of the check-in game and moved to local recommendations and couponing.

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In an act of desperation, the SWC wanted to merge with the Big 8 in order to increase its television footprint.

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