Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

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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Many people are desperate to leave behind the rubble-strewn streets and precarious structures that have been weakened by dozens of aftershocks.

VOA: standard.2010.01.21

Remember, she says that, as she is growing more and more desperate at the end, that her men were being stripped away from her one by one.

记住她说过到最后,她变得越来越绝望，因为男人们一个个地离她远去。

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Sergeant Lemmons says the process so far has been orderly, but people are desperate and the need is great.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

Moreover, you might get hit by an illness and then you could be in desperate trouble that you will die unless you get some kind of emergency care, which might be very expensive.

还有，你可能染上重病,并且深陷绝境,以致你会因此而死去,除非你能获得异常昂贵的，紧急护理。

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U.S.military commanders say that despite the desperate conditions in parts of the capital, food distributions overall have been orderly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

Thank you. I just feel like in the situation that desperate, you have to do what you have to do to survive.

谢谢，我只是认为,在那样的绝境下，为了生存，你不得不那样做。

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Messina Mayor Giuseppe Buzzanca says a desperate search continues under the collapsed buildings and rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

Do you see that word "throbs"? " A desperate honesty that throbs through his confession."

你们看到那个字了吗，悸动“,他的忏悔被绝望的虔诚悸动着“

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We are desperate to get this country through the recession and into recovery and that is what I intend to continue to do."

VOA: standard.2010.04.30

You feel desperate because you know that if you crash into these five workers, they will all die.

你此时极度绝望,因为你深知,如果电车撞向那五名工人，他们全都会死。

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"Patients are so desperate that they will take anything and ending up hurting themselves in the process,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17

This time, you're a transplant surgeon and you have five patients, each in desperate need of an organ transplant in order to survive.

这次你是一名器官移植医生，你有五名病人，每名病人都急需器官移植才能存活。

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Mahecic says thousands of desperate Somalis continue to risk their lives and use unscrupulous smugglers to make the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

Like, in a situation that desperate, you have to do what you have to do to survive.

在那样的绝境之下，为了生存，你不得不那样做。

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Docol town elder Sheik Ali Gab says desperate families are already pouring into his community.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

The victims of Hurricane Katrina are in desperate need of help.

卡特里娜飓风的灾民急需救助。

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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.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

He drinks more. So, he's getting very desperate.

他更加凶猛的酗酒，这现实他慢慢变得绝望。

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Those who live and work on the border say the problems are complicated, involving demands for better security and pleas for help from desperate migrants.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

Desperate. Okay. How else? Yeah.

绝望是吗，还有呢？

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The sight of a food truck brings hundreds of desperate people into the streets.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Desperate.

绝望的。

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International Criminal Court President Louis Mourino O'Campo told al -Jazeera TV President Bashir's recent travels demonstrate that he is "desperate" and is "only making short trips."

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The much-criticized electoral commission chairman Maurice Iwu blames a desperate political class motivated largely by a desire to enjoy the profits of office for Nigeria's electoral problems.

VOA: standard.2009.08.22

The U.N.refugee agency says Somalis desperate to flee war, drought and poverty in their country continue to risk their lives by taking the perilous journey across the Gulf of Aden.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

One woman says she is desperate for help.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

"Rather than being a mechanism of cooperation,of joint fact-finding, of assistance to one another, it became another focal point for animosity and a failure,really, to work together to solve the desperate needs of both peoples."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01