Desperation

(noun.) desperate recklessness; 'it was a policy of desperation'.

校对:马奇

• You will drive him to desperation, she said, and increase our dangers tenfold. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But being soured, Mr Wegg, and driven to reckless madness and desperation, I suppose it's Yes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Ma'am,' said Mr. Pickwick, thrusting out his head in the extremity of his desperation, 'ma'am! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Now he dug with it in a steady, almost machinelike desperation. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I was just saying to Eunice when you came in— My dear aunt, the joke is not worth telling you, said Maurice, in desperation cutting her short. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Blessed if I don't think that ven a man's wery poor, he rushes out of his lodgings, and eats oysters in reg'lar desperation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Nerved by the courage of desperation, she opened the door. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• In stipulating for it, he had been impelled by a feeling little short of desperation, and the feeling abided by him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I haven't got to keep it warm,' Mr Wegg made answer, in a sort of desperation occasioned by the singularity of the question. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I felt, if not brave, yet a little desperate; and desperation will often suffice to fill the post and do the work of courage. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• This intention, with a promptitude often the effect of desperation, he at once commenced carrying into execution, with much vigour and surgical skill. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• What does this unmannerly boy mean,' asked Mr. Gradgrind, eyeing him in a sort of desperation, 'by Tight-Jeff? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Brummell here forced his way through the crowd in a fit of desperation and disappeared. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• But I resisted all these overtures, and sat there in desperation; each time asking him, with tears in my eyes, for my money or my jacket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It's worse than boots, it's a silk dress, she said, with the calmness of desperation, for she wanted the worst over. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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