Desesperado in english
Desperate
pronunciation: desprɪt part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: desprɪt part of speech: adjective
In gestures
desesperado = frantic ; desperate ; in desperation ; agonised [agonized, -USA] ; hopeless ; despairing ; up against the wall ; with + Posesivo + back against the wall ; forlorn ; frenzied.
Example: Frantic assistants fell over each other's feet trying to retrieve tickets from the rows and rows of issue trays = Frantic assistants fell over each other's feet trying to retrieve tickets from the rows and rows of issue trays.Example: Compassion shadowed the trustee's face -- she could see he was desperate -- and compassion was in her voice as she answered: 'All right, I'll go over this afternoon'.Example: When a library user comes to the reference desk in frustration and desperation -- perhaps in a rage or in tears, it is often an unforgettable (and sometimes unpleasant) opportunity to test one's problem-solving abilities and diplomatic talents.Example: He went back into the house, addressing his Maker in low agonized tones, changed, and started out again.Example: This article discusses the pre-revolutionary shortage of books on agriculture economy in 1913, and how existing books only discussed the miserable, hopeless life of the peasants.Example: Sympathetic readers wept with Dwight MacDonald in his despairing plea for the restoration of the English language after first encountering 'Webster's Third International Dictionary of the English Language'.Example: The article is entitled 'Up against the wall: highlights of the Detroit Conference, American Library Association, June 27-July 3'.Example: With his back against the wall, he might judge that he had little choice but to use his weapons of mass destruction in a last-ditch attempt to save his country.Example: The author wrings sick humor from its feckless heroes' forlorn attempts to escape from a drug habit that they do not really enjoy any longer.Example: There was a frenzied last-minute rush by Indians to do their bit to see the Taj Mahal through to the elite list of the new Seven Wonders of the World.more:
» en una situación desesperada = in dire straits .
Example: Egypt's Internet situation is in dire straits after two undersea cables in the Mediterranean were accidentally severed yesterday.» esfuerzo desesperado = last-ditch effort .
Example: In a last-ditch effort to avert disaster, Jack appeals to Davy Jones' thirst for vengeance.» estar desesperado = Posesivo + back + be + against the wall .
Example: What do you do when your back's against the wall following a breast cancer diagnosis?.» intento desesperado = last-ditch attempt .
Example: With his back against the wall, he might judge that he had little choice but to use his weapons of mass destruction in a last-ditch attempt to save his country.» las situaciones desesperadas requieren medidas desesperadas = desperate times call for desperate measures .
Example: Desperate times call for desperate measures, and we have not seen this kind of desperation for jobs in America since the Great Depression of the 1930s.desesperar = despair ; yield + despair.
Example: Like others, I've been wondering when I'd get my money's worth out of this meeting, and I was beginning to despair.Example: It is as if failure, having yielded despair, then gave rise to the sheerest optimism.more:
» desesperarse = yield to + despair ; strain at + the leash ; fall into + despair .
Example: Yielding to despair worsens the problem. Example: When rulers and military leaders spend so much on building up a military force, they are sometimes straining at the leash to use it. Example: Everyone, however, at some time in their lives, falls into despair, which can present the opportunity to be oneself.» el que espera, desespera = a watched kettle/pot never boils .
Example: 'A watched pot never boils' and, conversely, 'time flies when you're having fun' nicely capture the observation that the degree of attention paid to the passing of time contributes to its subjective duration = "El que espera desespera" y, lo opuesto, "el tiempo vuela cuando te diviertes" refleja bien la idea de que el grado de atención que se presta al paso del tiempo contribuye a su duración subjetiva.