utmost

• They were in effect for us a breathing space of which we had the utmost need .
  实际上却使我们获得了一个喘息的机会，我们那时正是迫切需要这样一个机会。
• I lived near a year upon the money, spending very sparingly, and eking things out to the utmost .
  我就靠着这点钱，克勤克俭，七拼八凑地又过了几乎一年。
• He was even more cautious than ever , and did his utmost to win the trust and favour of the superior .
  他更加谨小慎微，兢兢业业，以尽力取信讨好其上司。
• During all these conversations the utmost frankness and usually a spirit of cordiality prevailed .
  所有这些会议都笼罩着极其坦率而且通常是热诚亲切的气氛。
• I spoke so much as put him into the utmost confusion, and in the end brought out the whole story .
  我却说了许多话，弄得他莫名其妙，最后终于说出了全部事实。
• "why, are you not?" returned his questioner, fretted into a state of the utmost irritation .
  “怎么，难道你不是吗？”问话的人答道，陷入极端的愤怒的情绪中。
• He had left the girl whose youth and innocence he had seduced in a situation of the utmost distress .
  他诱骗了那个年青、天真的姑娘，把她抛在完全无望的境地。
• You play to win , and the game has little meaning unless you do you utmost to win .
  你参加比赛就是要取胜，如果你不全力以赴去赢得胜利，那比赛就没有什么意义了。
• She endeavored to conceal a throbbing melancholy heart with the utmost sprightliness in her countenance .
  为了掩饰她那颗惆怅郁闷的心，她在神态间故意装作十分轻松活泼。