"Desperately" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 死命 | sǐ mìng | doom / death / desperately |   |
| 没命 | méi mìng | to lose one's life / to die / recklessly / desperately | |
| 要死要活 | yào sǐ yào huó | terribly / awfully / desperately | |
| 不得了 | bù dé liǎo | desperately serious / disastrous / extremely / exceedingly | |
| 拼抢 | pīn qiǎng | to fight desperately (at the risk of one's life) | |
| 拼死拼活 | pīn sǐ pīn huó | one's utmost / (to fight or work) desperately hard / to put up a life or death struggle / at all costs | |
| 燃眉 | rán méi | to burn one's eyebrows / fig. desperately serious situation | |
| 置之死地而后生 | zhì zhī sǐ dì ér hòu shēng | place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法|孙子兵法[Sun1 zi3 Bing1 fa3]) / to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger / fig. to find a way out of an impasse | |
| 拼争 | pīn zhēng | to fight desperately | |
