He manages a desperate escape in a boat no larger than a dory and is picked up by a Portuguese freighter bound for Brazil.

然而他靠了一条不比鱼划子大多少的小船冒死逃脱，得到一艘驶往巴西去的葡萄牙货船的搭救。

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He, meanwhile, was squirming in his seat, desperate to escape, but stuck with making three hours of small-talk with his recent and best-forgotten conquest.

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Desperate to escape the burden, it is undertaking some expensive runarounds.

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Verging on starvation and desperate to escape a contract with his first label, Morrison wound up in a New York studio with a small group of jazz musicians.

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