I hope you don't mind my asking, but I'd like to know.
我希望你不介意我向你打听一下,我想知道。
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
溺水者见草也要抓;急何能择。
Greater too than we can describe; for language, which was invented to convey the meanings of this world, cannot readily be fitted to the uses of another.