So the figures for the growth of towns and cities represent proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment, a growing in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.

因此，城镇（人口）的增长数字意味着失业和未充分就业的情况成比例增长，以及绝望的父母和挨饿的孩子的人数增长。

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With a despairing scream the pirate leapt upon Long Tom and precipitated himself into the sea.

随着一声绝望的尖叫，海盗跳到长射程大炮上，猛扎进海里。

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The boy uttered a despairing groan, and ceased from his struggles, panting.

那孩子发出一声绝望的呻吟，停止了挣扎，喘着气。

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Mehlman uses his mother's concentration-camp number to gamble on, a despairing joke of a way to show that misfortune is always with us.

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