"desperate" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 绝望 絕望 | to despair / to give up all hope / desperate / desperation | syn | |
| 危急 | critical / desperate (situation) | syn | |
| 惨烈 慘烈 | bitter / desperate | syn | |
| 走投无路 走投無路 | to be at an impasse (idiom) / in a tight spot / at the end of one's rope / desperate | syn | |
| 穷蹙 窮蹙 | hard-up / in dire straits / desperate |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 绝境 絕境 | desperate straits | syn | |
| 回天 | to reverse a desperate situation | ||
| 殊死 | to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death | syn | |
| 残局 殘局 | endgame (in chess) / desperate situation / aftermath (of a failure) | ||
| 力挽狂澜 力挽狂瀾 | to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom) / fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis | syn | |
| 血路 | desperate getaway (from a battlefield) / to cut a bloody path out of a battlefield | ||
| 燃眉之急 | lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom) / fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency | syn | |
| 饥寒交迫 飢寒交迫 | beset by hunger and cold (idiom) / starving and freezing / in desperate poverty | syn | |
| 死战 死戰 | fight to the death / desperate struggle | syn | |
| 颠沛流离 顛沛流離 | homeless and miserable (idiom) / to wander about in a desperate plight / to drift | syn | |
| 火烧眉毛 火燒眉毛 | lit. the fire burns one's eyebrows (idiom) / fig. desperate situation / extreme emergency | syn | |
| 亡命之徒 | runaway (idiom) / desperate criminal / fugitive | syn | |
| 弹尽粮绝 彈盡糧絕 | out of ammunition and no food left (idiom) / in desperate straits | syn | |
| 不可终日 不可終日 | to be unable to carry on even for a single day / to be in a desperate situation | syn | |
| 逼上梁山 | driven to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels / to drive to revolt / to force sb to desperate action | syn | |
| 弹尽援绝 彈盡援絕 | out of ammunition and no hope of reinforcements (idiom) / in desperate straits | ||
| 死马当活马医 死馬當活馬醫 | lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation | ||
| 狗急跳墙 狗急跳牆 | a cornered dog will jump over the wall (idiom) / to be driven to desperate action | syn | |
| 穷鼠啮狸 窮鼠嚙狸 | a desperate rat will bite the fox (idiom) / the smallest worm will turn being trodden on | ||
| 釜底游鱼 釜底游魚 | a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom) / in a desperate situation | ||
| 死马当活马医 死馬當活馬醫 | lit. to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom) / fig. to keep trying everything in a desperate situation | ||
| 釜底游鱼 釜底游魚 | a fish at the bottom of the pot (idiom) / in a desperate situation | ||
| 背城借一 | to make a last-ditch stand before the city wall (idiom) / to fight to the last ditch / to put up a desperate struggle | syn | |
| 绝望的境地 絕望的境地 | desperate straits / impossible situation | ||
| 颠沛 顛沛 | to fall over / to stumble / (fig.) to suffer hardship / to be in desperate straits | ||
| 赤贫者 赤貧者 | desperate poor | ||
| 大旱望云霓 大旱望雲霓 | lit. looking for rain clouds in times of drought (idiom) / fig. desperate for an escape from a difficult situation | syn |