"If it comes to that," he thought in desperation, "I suppose any fool can WASH!"

“如果到了这一步，”他绝望地想，“我想任何一个傻瓜也都会洗衣服的！”

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In desperation, you draft a "to-do" list, but most days, you can make little progress with it.

在绝望中，你起草了一份“待办事项”清单，但大多数时候，你几乎无法取得进展。

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In desperation, he ran to the city and went straight to the courthouse to report the robbery to the magistrate.

绝望之下，他跑到城里，直奔法院向地方法官报告这起抢劫案。

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But humans continue their violent and evil ways, And in desperation, God wipes them out, and starts again.

但人类继续他们暴力邪恶的行径，绝望时，上帝将他们消灭，重新开始。

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My belief in books had risen more out of a sense of desperation than from my abiding conviction of their ultimate value.

我对书的信仰更多的是来自一种绝望,而非我对其本质的长期依赖，“

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Again,getting rid of the negative does not guarantee us the positive, which is why already in the 1940s, wrote that most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

再强调一次，摆脱消极,不能保证我们变得积极，因此早在19世纪40年代，认为，大多数人都活在沉默的压抑中。

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