Men and women alike become desperate for a guarantee of love, but that desperation kicks in, roughly speaking, at different points in the relationship.

男女都会对爱情的承诺变得绝望，但是这种绝望作用于爱情的不同方面。

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When we enter a marriage expecting our need for love to be filled through another person and find ourselves disappointed, instead, we may find ourselves even more desperate for God's love.

当我们走进婚姻的时候，我们期待另一半能够满足我们被爱的需要。然而我们发现自己很失望，我们可能会发现我们更加渴望上帝的爱。

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"Employers love this, because it shows you are interested in their company, not just desperate for a job," she says. "it will often give you a real edge."

她说，“雇主喜欢这一点，因为这表明你对它们的公司感兴趣，而不只急着要工作。”

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Her songs tell of long and sometimes desperate searches for love or a little clarity of thought or for instant solutions to life's problems.

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There is something intense a kind of dumb delicacy within their thuggish instincts, and by the end the movie has transformed itself into a desperate fight for love.

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