"Desperate" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 jué wàng to despair / to give up all hope / desperate / desperation
 wēi jí critical / desperate (situation)
 cǎn liè bitter / desperate
 zǒu tóu wú lù to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate
 qióng cù hard-up / in dire straits / desperate
 jué jìng desperate straits
 huí tiān to reverse a desperate situation
 shū sǐ to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death
 cán jú endgame (in chess) / desperate situation / aftermath (of a failure)
 lì wǎn kuáng lán to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom) / fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
 xuè lù desperate getaway (from a battlefield) / to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield
 rán méi zhī jí lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom) / fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
 jī hán jiāo pò beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty
 sǐ zhàn fight to the death / desperate struggle
 diān pèi liú lí homeless and miserable (idiom) / to wander about in a desperate plight / to drift
 huǒ shāo méi mao lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom) / fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency
 wáng mìng zhī tú runaway (idiom) / desperate criminal / fugitive
 dàn jìn liáng jué out of ammunition and no food left (idiom) / in desperate straits
 bù kě zhōng rì to be unable to carry on even for a single day / to be in a desperate situation
 bī shàng liáng shān driven to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels / to drive to revolt / to force sb to desperate action
 dàn jìn yuán jué out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom) / in desperate straits
 sǐ mǎ dāng huó mǎ yī lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
 gǒu jí tiào qiáng a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action
 qióng shǔ niè lí a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) / the smallest worm will turn being trodden on
 jǐn dǐ yóu yú a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom) / in a desperate situation
 sǐ mǎ dàng huó mǎ yī lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
 fǔ dǐ yóu yú a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom) / in a desperate situation
 bèi chéng jiè yī to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom) / to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle
 jué wàng de jìng dì desperate straits / impossible situation
 chì pín zhě desperate poor
 dà hàn wàng yún ní lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom) / fig. desperate for an escape from a difficult situation
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