They could imagine how desperate a woman would have to be to agree to be a dish, and what it might feel like having a group of men picking food off your flesh with metal implements.

她们可能会猜测那个“盘子”肯定是走投无路才做这行的，也可能会去想象一堆男人用金属器具在自己身上夹菜会是什么感觉。

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There are hundreds of people desperate to adopt a child.

有数以百计的人极其渴望收养小孩。

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They admit they are now desperate for a lucky break.

他们承认现在非常渴望交上好运。

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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."

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A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession does not absolve him from sins of diabolical cunning. He is abnormal.

他的忏悔被绝望的虔诚悸动着,但这也不能为他那恶魔的狡诈赎罪，他是变态。

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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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But there's one thing that the Times, my former employer, probably isn't: a practical model to be emulated by a newspaper industry desperate for a new game plan.

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He told me about a desperate message that a farmer left him the other day.

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Others see it as a desperate effort by a party that has run out of ideas.

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