For workers, especially low-paid workers, who desperately need their jobs yet know they can be easily replaced, gamification may feel more like the Hunger Games.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.

出自-2012年12月阅读原文

They are in desperate need of financial assistance.

出自-2011年6月听力原文

I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.

2019年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section A

The company also embarked on a desperate cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of thousands of jobs.

2015年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

出自-2012年考研阅读原文

"The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation," said USFWS director Daniel Ashe.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not: challenge the constitutionality of Vermont's rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

2012年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate.

2014年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The Dutch giant Elsevier, which claims to publish 25% of the scientific papers produced in the world, made profits of more than £900m last year, while UK universities alone spent more than £210m in 2016 to enable researchers to access their own publicly f

2020年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Yet these desperate measures have proved the right ones and, sadly for many journalists, they can be pushed further.

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ