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predicament
时间: 2023-09-15 12:32:07
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英 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]
美 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]

n. 尴尬的处境;困境;危境;范畴

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双语例句
  • Local governments face serious economic predicament.

    地方政府面临严重的经济困境。

  • After three years of hard work, he finally got rid of the predicament.

    经过三年的努力,他终于摆脱了困境。

  • This sudden accident got her into a predicament.

    这突如其来的意外让她陷入了困境。

  • She is hoping to get a loan from her bank to help her out of her financial predicament.

    她希望能从银行得到一笔贷款以摆脱经济困境

  • Hank explained our predicament.

    汉克说明了我们的困境。

  • With friends, she sometimes alluded to a feeling that she herself was to blame for her son's predicament.

    和朋友们一起时,她有时暗示她感到儿子的困境要怪她自己。

  • The main character is often unknowingly lured into this potentially lethal predicament by a seductive femme fatale, as in Original Sin.

    就像在《原罪》中一样,主角经常会在不知不觉中被一位性感的蛇蝎美人引诱到这个可能致命的困境中。

  • I'm in a terrible predicament.

    我的处境十分尴尬。

  • I am in the identical predicament with yourself.

    我和你处于同样的窘境之中。

近义词
百科

电影《Predicament》(中文译名:困境),是新西兰出品的一部喜剧电影。

释义
n.

a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation

尴尬的处境,困境;危境

  • the club's financial predicament.

    俱乐部的财政困境。

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’."

  • But I am asking you to empathize with his predicament. And ask yourselves what would you do to save your family?

    但我恳请大家同情他的困境,并扪心自问,你们会为挽救自己的家庭做些什么。

    《House of Cards Season 4》《纸牌屋 第四季》

  • Oh, no worries, I explained my predicament to our letter carrier.

    放心吧,我跟咱的邮差解释了我当前的囧境。

    《The Big Bang Theory Season 4》《生活大爆炸 第四季》

  • Listen, it's kind of an emergency. But I guess you know that, or we'd be in the predicament room.

    这是紧急事件,我想你很清楚,否则我们就不会在这儿了。

    《Friends Season 1》《老友记第一季》

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