This time, you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients, each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive.

这次你是一名器官移植医生，你有五名病人，每名病人都急需器官移植才能存活。

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The victims of Hurricane Katrina are in desperate need of help.

卡特里娜飓风的灾民急需救助。

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Moreover, you might get hit by an illness and then you could be in desperate trouble that you will die unless you get some kind of emergency care, which might be very expensive.

还有，你可能染上重病,并且深陷绝境,以致你会因此而死去,除非你能获得异常昂贵的，紧急护理。

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Thank you. I just feel like in the situation that desperate, you have to do what you have to do to survive.

谢谢，我只是认为,在那样的绝境下，为了生存，你不得不那样做。

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Like, in a situation that desperate, you have to do what you have to do to survive.

在那样的绝境之下，为了生存，你不得不那样做。

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