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Christopher Kettle, Biodiversity International’s director for forest genetic resources and restoration in Rome, says that the need for infrastructure — things such as mechanisms for collecting and storing seeds, and nurseries to raise seedlings — might be most desperate here because many trees are ‘masting’ species, which don’t produce seeds every year.

国际生物多样性中心驻罗马的森林遗传资源与恢复主任克里斯托弗·凯特尔表示，这里对基础设施——诸如收集和储存种子的机制以及培育幼苗的苗圃——的需求可能最为迫切，因为许多树木属于“大年结实”物种，并非每年都结种子。

“The lesser prairie chicken is in a desperate situation,” said USFWS Director Daniel Ashe.

“小草原鸡的处境岌岌可危，”美国鱼类及野生动物管理局局长丹尼尔·阿什说。

Nevertheless, the affordable housing situation is desperate.

尽管如此，经济适用房的状况已岌岌可危。

were in a desperate situation.

处境艰难。

desperate.

绝望。

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 funded research; both figures seem to rise unstoppably despite increasingly desperate efforts to change them.

荷兰巨头爱思唯尔声称出版了全世界25%的科学论文，去年利润超过9亿英镑；而仅英国的大学在2016年就花费了2.1亿多英镑，让研究人员能够查阅他们自己由公共资金资助的研究；尽管人们为改变这一状况所作的努力越来越孤注一掷，这两个数字似乎仍在势不可挡地上升。

a desperate appeal from some biologists.

一些生物学家的急切呼吁。

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.

相反，该公司恰恰做了它长期承诺不会做的事：在联邦法院质疑佛蒙特州法规的合宪性，以此作为让其佛蒙特扬基核电站继续运营的孤注一掷之举。

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

然而，这些孤注一掷的措施已被证明是正确的，而且对许多记者来说可悲的是，这些措施还可能进一步推行。