Giving a helping hand to those who are desperate for help can make our society more harmonious.

向急需帮助之人伸出援助之手能让我们的社会变得更加和谐。

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His heart thumped audibly as his benumbed hand held the receiver in a desperate grip.

他的心怦怦跳着，痉挛的手死死地攥住电话听筒。

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However desperate you become, accept your pain as it is, because it is in fact trying to hand you a priceless gift: the chance of discovering, through spiritual practice, what lies behind sorrow.

不管你多么绝望，都要接受你的痛苦，因为事实上它赐给了你无价的礼物：让你透过修行，了悟忧伤背后的实相。

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At first blush, I did not like the sound of this as it made me wonder if GM is desperate and overplaying its hand.

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But with the comparative riches of Europe so seemingly close at hand, desperate migrants will undoubtedly continue to put their lives at risk for what they believe to be their one chance of a brighter, better future.

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They presented the hymnwriter as a fragile and precarious being, often poised on the brink of desolation and desperate for the deity's comforting hand.

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