I had a strong desire to help and care for people.

我有一股强烈的帮助和关心别人的愿望。

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He evinced a strong desire to be reconciled with his family.

他表现出与家人和好的强烈愿望。

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She had a strong desire to be a dancer but failed to make the grade.

她渴望成为一名舞蹈家但没有成功。

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He had a strong desire to control every element of the production and marketing of his films.

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India has a strong desire to not to be a service depended on economy.

印度非常渴望降低其服务业,对经济的依赖性。

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You will find that, even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all, fight with yourself, for there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.

你会发现，即使你可以忽略,其他人对你及你的生活的态度，你还得和自己战斗，几乎是和自己抗争，这样你就会有种强烈的欲望，要扭曲事实来添油加醋地描述你的感觉。

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Middle-aged patients tended to express a strong desire for communication skills, older patients less so.

BBC: Patients want 'empathy, not drugs'

But the two share at least one trait: a strong desire to control their world.

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Instead, Sir Leon has a strong desire to remain politically active as a pro-European Conservative.

BBC: News | UK Politics | Sir Leon: Britain's old hand in Brussels