He was asked to think of a word that could be used in an emergency.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Moreover, you might get hit by an illness and then you could be in desperate trouble that you will die unless you get some kind of emergency care, which might be very expensive.

还有，你可能染上重病,并且深陷绝境,以致你会因此而死去,除非你能获得异常昂贵的，紧急护理。

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But an expert in emergency medicine says a person cannot be worse than dead.

VOA: special.2009.08.11

The White House has declared the unemployment bill an emergency measure, meaning it does not have to be offset by spending cuts in other areas of the federal budget.

VOA: standard.2010.07.19

The event was attended not only by doctors,nurses, and delegates from international aid groups, but also by people from outside the health sector planners,architects and engineers who talked about ways of building hospitals in such a way that they would be ready for an emergency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14