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to despair / to give up all hope / desperate / desperation
HSK 5
desperately serious / disastrous / extremely / exceedingly
HSK 5
to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate
HSK 7-9
critical / desperate (situation)
HSK 7-9
to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom); to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom); fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
runaway (idiom); desperate criminal / fugitive
(idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法) to deploy one's troops in such a way that there is no possibility of retreat, so that they will fight for their lives and win the battle; to fight desperately when confronted with mortal danger; to find a way to emerge from a dire situation
out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits
a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action
desperate straits
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
to reverse a desperate situation
to fight desperately (at the risk of one's life)
to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately
out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom); in desperate straits
lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom); fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
to burn one's eyebrows / fig. desperately serious situation
doom / death / desperately
to be unable to carry on even for a single day / to be in a desperate situation
to fight desperately
driven to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels / to drive to revolt / to force sb to desperate action
one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs
to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death
bitter / desperate
lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty
desperate getaway (from a battlefield) / to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield
endgame (in chess) / desperate situation / aftermath (of a failure)
hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
homeless and miserable (idiom); to wander about in a desperate plight / to drift
to fall over; to stumble / (fig.) to suffer hardship; to be in desperate straits
lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom) / fig. to yearn for relief from a desperate situation
terribly / awfully / desperately
a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom); the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom) / in a desperate situation


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