In developing countries desperate to feed fast-growing and underfed populations; the issue is simpler and much more urgent: Do the benefits of biotech outweigh the risks?

。在迫切想要养活其迅速增长而又吃不饱的人口的发展中国家,问题比较简单,也更加紧迫:生物技术的好处是否大于风险呢?

“Sire,” replied the courtier, laughing, in order that he might seem to comprehend the quotation, “your majesty may be perfectly right in relying on the good feeling of France, but I fear I am not altogether wrong in dreading some desperate attempt.”

“陛下，”朝臣回答，并笑了笑，做出他懂得这句话意思的样子，“陛下可以完全相信法兰西人民的忠心，但我所担心的某种亡命企图不见得是没有道理的。

The names of 16 Basketball nations went into the draw for the 1998 Basketball World Championships with 15 of the teams desperate to avoid the all-powerful USA.

16个国家的代表队参加了1998世界篮球锦标赛的抽签仪式,15支球队都竭力避免和强大的美国队分在一组。

On the twenty-fifth the desperate Guderian had called on Ribbentrop and urged him to try to get an immediate armistice in the West so that what was left of the German armies could be concentrated in the East against the Russians

25日那天急得团团转的古德里安去见里宾特洛甫，要他设法马上在西线实现停战，以便使残存的德国军队能集中在东线对付俄军。

When you have the enemy’s strongholds on your rear, and narrow passes in front, it is hemmed-in ground. When there is no place of refuge at all, it is desperate ground.

背固前隘者,围地也﹔无所往者,死地也。

Soldiers when in desperate straits lose the sense of fear. If there is no place of refuge, they will stand firm. If they are in hostile country,they will show a stubborn front. If there is no help for it, they will fight hard.

兵士甚陷则不惧,无所往则固,深入则拘,不得已则斗。

The urban homeless are often in desperate need of sustenance

城市里无家可归的人极其需要食物来维持生命

He was possessed of great personal strength, courage, and cunning-was perfectly acquainted with the coast, and capable of conducting the most desperate enterprises

此人力大无比，勇敢而狡猾，对海岸的情况了如指掌，能够干冒险的勾当。

Moreover, export companies based in California and the rest of the United States are certain to confront tougher competition globally, as asia bolsters its exports in a desperate bid to strengthen its battered economies.

此外,为了更加有效地克服经济困难,亚洲各国不顾一切的大力支持本国出口,这肯定使得加州和美国其他地区的出口上遇到更加激烈的国际竞争。

It isn’t hard to see how Turner’s childhood might have instilled this sense of permanent crisisof desperate insecuritybehind the frenzied activity that is his trademark

从特纳的早年经历可以看出，在他那些标志性的狂热行为背后，隐藏着的是一种永久的危机感和极度的不安全感。

But it needed desperate courage to kill yourself in a world where firearms, or any quick and certain poison, were completely unprocurable

但是在一个完全弄不到枪械、或者随便哪种能够迅速致命的毒物的世界里，自杀需要极大的勇气。

In this crisis they used desperate means.

当此危急存亡之秋，他们孤注一掷之举。

He was desperate when he lost all his money.

当他丢了所有的钱时,他绝望了。

As I grew into my twilight years, in one last desperate attempt, I settled for changing only my family, those closest to me, but alas, they would have none of it

当我到了迟暮之年,抱着最后一丝努力的希望,我决定只改变我的家庭,我亲近的人,但是,唉!他们根本不接受改变

It was an ignominious end.as a desperate mutiny by a handful of soldiers blossomed into full-scale revolt(Angus Deming)

当一小部份士兵铤而走险的骚乱发展成大规模的叛乱时，结局就不光彩了(安格斯·德明)

and in this present war the attack on stalingrad is the expression of the last desperate struggle of fascism itself

而在战争中，又以攻击斯大林格勒表现它自己的最后挣扎。

In the Fengyi Pavilion the girl said to him with a desperate look

二人来到风仪亭，貂蝉凄凄切切地说

Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable

佛罗伦萨大公科西莫曾用极其强烈的言辞谴责朋友的背信弃义或忘恩负义，他似乎认为这类恶行不可饶恕。

Fleischl, who had become a morphine addict following repeated therapeutic administrations for intractable neurological pain and was in desperate straits, took to cocaine with enthusiasm and was soon consuming it in large quantities

弗雷氏由于患有顽固的神经方面的疾病而处境艰难，经过不断地药物疗法，他已嗜吗啡上瘾，当他充满热情地服用可卡因后，很快便开始大量使用。

The state of the country is desperate .

该国局势危殆.

The country is in a desperate state and we must work hard.

国家处于危急关头，我们应当努力工作。

In Universal Studio Hollywood recently completed an unprecedented $100 million expansion program the newest features allow you to join E. T.--titular hero of Steven Spielberg’s movie--on a desperate mission to save his planet

好莱坞环球电影制片厂最近完成了空前规模的1亿美元扩建工程。在该厂，最新的故事片会让你和外星人(史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格的影片中作为片名的男主角)一起为挽救他的星球而进行一次孤注一掷的飞行任务。

Circumstances compelled him to be desperate .

环境迫使他不顾一切。

Ground on which we can only be saved from destruction by fighting without delay, is desperate ground.

疾战则存,不疾战则亡者,为死地。

If she gets the job,that’s one in the eye for Peterhe was desperate to get it.

假使她获得这份工作,那对彼得是当头一棒;他是拼命想得到这份工作的.

She wrote me a desperate letter.

她给我写了一封信表示因绝望而不惜孤注一掷.

Her attire, which, indeed, she had wrought for the occasion, in prison, and had modelled much after her own fancy, seemed to express the attitude of her spirit, the desperate recklessness of her mood, by its wild and picturesque peculiarity.

她在狱中按照自己的想象,专门为这场合制作的服饰,以其特有的任性和别致,似乎表达了她的精神境界和由绝望而无所顾忌的心情。

I woke up this morning, desperate , thinking, it’s May 3! In three days I’ll lose my angel

今天早上，我睁开眼睛，一想到已经是5月3号，我绝望极了，再过三天，我将失去我的天使。

But at the word“Goodbye”,and although the piano sounded more desperate than ever, her face broke into a brilliant, dreadfully unsympathetic smile

可是唱到“再见”时，尽管琴声哀绝，她脸上却绽露出一股兴奋的光彩，与歌子的情调极不协调地微笑了起来。

“Desperate ” to come up with answers, he found himself quoted as saying that diana had cried out Dodi’s name

里斯-琼斯“勉为其难”他作了回答，事后发现他们引用他的话说戴安娜曾呼唤多迪的名字。

desperate storm

n.猛烈的暴风雨

desperate illness

n.重病

make a desperate effort

vi.拼命努力

be in a desperate situation

vi.处境危急

conduct a desperate struggle

vi.作拼死的斗争