desperation
英 [despə'reɪʃn]
美[,dɛspə'reʃən]
- n. 绝望的境地；不顾一切拼命
考试真题
- But it’s one of many low- tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation and shared.
出自-2016年6月听力原文
- A cynic might speculate that the UK is on the verge of disappearing into an endless fever of self-celebration in its desperation to reinvent itself for the post-Brexit world: after town of culture, who knows that will follow-village of culture?
2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ