"It's a rather desperate measure," admits a well-placed southerner.

“这是一项绝望的人制定出的措施”，一位南部高官承认说。

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“It’s a rather desperate measure, ” admits a well-placed southerner.

“这是一项绝望的人制定出的措施”，一位南部高官承认说。

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As a measure of how desperate people are to get to Italy, at least 525 died trying.

作为测量人们渴望去意大利的手段，至少有525人是冒死为之。

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In a telephone interview, he described the communiqus as a desperate measure used occasionally by the rebels to portray the region as being in turmoil.

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Securing private investments in their stock used to be the desperate measure of cash-strapped dot-coms teetering on the abyss.

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Ronda Holder believes in public shame as a desperate measure for desperate times.

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In a desperate measure to strengthen the rouble, the central bank tripled its refinancing rate to 150% on May 27th.

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