Exotic facials were one way to turn back the hands of time, to help uncover that baby face hidden under the wrinkles and acne. But desperate times did indeed call for desperate measures.

奇特的面部护理是返老还童、有助于展现隐藏在皱纹和痤疮下幼嫩肌肤的一个方法，但对自己这张脸绝望时你的确会采取一些极端的方法。

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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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"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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