0 extremely or very much -- 非常；極其
1 in a way that shows you are frightened and ready to try anything to change a situation -- （因絕望而）拚命地；孤注一擲地
Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.
Blake looked ridiculous, and I tried desperately to keep a straight face.
The rescuers could hear the sound of the trapped people desperately trying to claw their way through the rubble.
The flood has left villagers and animals desperately scavenging for food.
He wanted that job desperately, and was devastated when he failed to get it.
Although there is nothing desperately original about the basics of the exercises, they are well-dressed, with an historical twist.
The distresses of the war were thus aggravated by a tighter administration of the counties required by a parliament desperately short of money.
Desperately poor people, pensioners, working men, minorities eat it up.
