But desperate times can lead to desperate measures.

但是，绝望的时期可能导致绝望的举措。

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But desperate times call for desperate measures.

但绝望的时代呼唤的是绝望的措施。

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Yet desperate times may lead to desperate measures.

然而绝望的时刻或许会引发极端的措施。

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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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People desperate to keep their jobs do desperate things, a fact that Mr Blair cannot ignore.

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Daisy is desperate but she is not any more desperate than her husband who is totally utterly desperate.

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Ronda Holder believes in public shame as a desperate measure for desperate times.

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