释义
n.
a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation
尴尬的处境,困境;危境
Philosophy, archaic (in Aristotelian logic) each of the ten ‘categories', often listed as: substance or being, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, posture, having or possession, action, and passion
【哲】 〈古〉 范畴(亚里士多德逻辑论十大范畴之一,常列举为: 本体或存在、数量、性、关系、地点、时间、姿势、状态、活动和遭变)。
词源
"late Middle English (in sense 2): from late Latin praedicamentum ‘something predicated' (rendering Greek katēgoria ‘category’), from Latin praedicare (see PREDICATE). From the sense ‘category' arose the sense ‘state of being, condition'; hence ‘unpleasant situation’."