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绝望
Desperate
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.
我现在不那么迫切地想要表达我内心的想法了,这是真的——我现在这么做是因为它让我保持清醒和兴趣,一个永远的学生。
I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.
不过,我喜欢人们渴望与他人建立联系。他们迫切地想知道你没有欺骗他们或误导他们。
Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
这两首歌浓缩了这两张专辑。他们也展示了观众想要什么。我不顾一切地想把乐队团结在一起,找到一些公众喜欢的东西。
We knew they were desperate. I knew personally and the team knew they were going to come out and play their best football. Most teams do when they're in that type of situation.
我们知道他们很绝望。我个人和球队都知道他们会站出来踢出最好的足球。大多数团队在这种情况下都会这样做。
Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.
选举竞争除了民意调查什么都没有,这就是为什么人们对选举如此着迷;我们迫切需要对正在发生的事情和可能发生的事情作出客观的描述。
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
再一次,金钱常常是大众产生错觉的原因。清醒的国家一下子变成了绝望的赌徒,几乎把自己的生命都押在了一张纸上。
I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.
我已经到了这样一个境地:我真的相信别人对我的所有称呼:“不性感”、“不有趣”、“太紧张”、“绝望”。“他们给我贴上的所有标签,我都拿走了,因为我的真实自我已经荡然无存。
I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.
我真的很绝望。我不知道你们是否还记得那么久以前,但是当我读研究生的时候他们不希望女性进入研究生院。他们对此非常坦率。他们直言不讳。但后来我考上了大学,拿到了学位。
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Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
作家是绝望的人,当他们不再绝望时,他们也就不再是作家了。
Are we not all desperate one way or another?
我们不是都这样或那样绝望吗?
I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.
我到了绝望的地步,除了上帝,没有人能帮助我。
When I am not desperate, I am worthless.
当我不绝望时,我就一文不值。
I've never been desperate to please my father.
我从来没有绝望地想要取悦我的父亲。
Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.
人类在最绝望的时候往往是在最好的时候。