desperate 核心词议:
adj. 绝望的,无望的;极危险的
desperate 基本解释
adj. 绝望的;由绝望而引起的;铤而走险的,孤注一掷的;急切的,极度渴望的
速记方法
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词根词缀法
de(远离)+sper(希望)+ate(使动后缀)→使远离希望=“绝望的”。
我们解释一下为什么sper是希望的意思。
其实也是根据声音变化法则,大家肯定认识expect是期待、期望的意思,更进一步引申为希望的意思,ex=s,pe=pe,r=t=ct,所以sper=expect=期望,希望。于是加一个表示否定的前缀de,那就是没有希望,绝望的,不期望不期待了的。
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同根词汇
desperation n.绝望的境地;不顾一切拼命
desperately adv.拼命地;绝望地;极度地
desperate 记忆方法
desperate相关的词根或词缀是:
sper
desperate绝望的adj.
de 否定 + sper 希望 + ate 具有…的 → 没有希望 → 绝望的
中文词源:
desperate 绝望的,铤而走险的
来自despair, 绝望。
desperate
精选例句
1、 But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.
但他们必须在疯狂的枪支猎人维克多·夸特曼之前找到那只兔子,他不顾一切地想杀死它。[机器翻译,如有错误,感谢纠错]
2、 The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.
下次当你站在水槽边,一边煮着面汤,一边等着它被灌满的时候,你将不得不一直吃到一大包现金从天上掉下来,不要绝望。[机器翻译,如有错误,感谢纠错]
1、 There appears little prospect of this desperate situation being remedied without radical action being taken.
如果不采取激进的行动,这种绝望的局面似乎很难得到补救。
1、 The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly funded research; both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.
荷兰巨头爱思唯尔声称发表了世界上25%的科学论文,去年利润超过9亿英镑,而仅英国大学在2016年就花费了2.1亿英镑,使研究人员能够访问他们自己的公共资助研究;这两个数字似乎都在不可阻挡地上升,尽管人们越来越绝望地试图改变它们。
常见考点例句:
- Again , leave such shenanigans to the truly desperate .
- 此外,远离这些导致真正绝望的阴谋诡计。
- Yet desperate times may lead to desperate measures .
- 然而绝望的时刻或许会引发极端的措施。
- Israel fought a desperate battle for survival .
- 以色列为生存而进行殊死战斗。
- The situation is neither desperate nor beyond repair .
- 这种情形既不十分危急也并非无法弥补。
- In the dry south-western part of california 's central valley , almond-growers are resorting to desperate measures .
- 在加利福尼亚中央谷干旱的西南部,杏仁种植户们正在采取铤而走险的办法。