People are prepared to commute long distances if they are desperate for work.

亟须得到工作的人会愿意长途乘车往返上下班。

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For those fresh out of university, desperate for work but unable to get it, there is a big imbalance between supply and demand.

对于那些刚从大学出来，急需工作却又得不到的人来说，供求之间存在着巨大的不平衡。

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He was desperate for work.

他迫切需要找到工作。

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"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

Julian understood that he would have to hire cheap help, a broken-down old carpenter desperate for work, or some rehabilitating wino or mental case, and the thought elevated his spirits, as if such servitude would echo the history of the place.

NEWYORKER: Idols

He told police that he had been depressed and desperate and offered to work for free to repay the money.

BBC: Northampton

Much of the research on work-life conflict focuses on harried working mothers trying to juggle everything, desperate for more time, with lots of reasons to leave work early.

WSJ: Single and Stepping Off the Fast Track