To give up, not cowardice, not inferior, nor is it low self-esteem, but not desperate desire to get a relief when, but after weighing the pros make a choice.

放弃，不是怯懦，不是自卑，也不是自暴自弃，更不是陷入绝境时渴望得到的一种解脱，而是在痛定思痛后的做出的一种选择。

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But despite the desperate conditions, the Somali people are not giving up.

尽管条件令人绝望，但索马里人从未放弃。

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This is good for profit margins, but not for the millions of desperate job seekers.

此类举措对扩大利润率很有效，但对数百万迫切需要工作的印度人很不利。

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Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

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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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The hiatus may be understandable but not for patients desperate for state-of-the art medicines, whatever their cost.

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As Atletico pressed, Bolton brought back more men and defended deeper, but it was not desperate stuff, and the English side comfortably handled whatever was flung into the area.

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