Predicament
[prɪ'dɪkəm(ə)nt] or [prɪ'dɪkəmənt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; 'finds himself in a most awkward predicament'; 'the woeful plight of homeless people'.
整理:奥蒂斯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A class or kind described by any definite marks; hence, condition; particular situation or state; especially, an unfortunate or trying position or condition.
(n.) See Category.
整理:弗娜
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Situation (especially a bad situation), condition, state, position, posture, attitude, plight, case.[2]. [Colloquial.] Pass, pinch, push, extremity, exigency, emergency, conjuncture.[3]. (Logic.) Category, class.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Difficulty, try, ing_position, state, condition, dilemma, situation,[SeeDILEMMA]
整理:梅
解釋/意思:
n. (logic) one of the classes or categories which include all predicables: condition: an unfortunate or trying position.—adj. Predicamen′tal.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
n. The wage of consistency.
校對:朱莉娅
例句/造句/用法:
- I'm not playing, I never do, said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Being some time afterwards in such a predicament, and having promised to apply to him, I sent to him for a hundred guineas. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- This is a distressing predicament for these young people,' thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Very little of the beef was done either; and the ham (which was also from the German-sausage shop round the corner) was in a similar predicament. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- But the American cuckoo is in this predicament, for she makes her own nest and has eggs and young successively hatched, all at the same time. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- As we were to learn later, this precaution saved us from dire predicament, and was eventually the means of our salvation. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- In this predicament he ventured on the hazardous experiment of taking his steam-vessel by sea, and successfully accomplished his voyage from New York to Delaware. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- The same people who with daily insistence say that innovators ignore facts are in the absurd predicament of trying to still human wants with petty taboos. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This vast mysterious Wall Street world of tips and deals--might she not find in it the means of escape from her dreary predicament? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
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