predicament

英 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]

美 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]

n.  尴尬的处境; 困境; 窘境

复数：predicaments　

GRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.9473 / COCA.9468

牛津词典

noun

• 尴尬的处境；困境；窘境
  a difficult or unpleasant situation, especially one where it is difficult to know what to do
  1. the club's financial predicament
     俱乐部的财政困境
  2. I'm in a terrible predicament.
     我的处境十分尴尬。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 困境；艰难的处境；尴尬的境地
  If you are in apredicament, you are in an unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of.
  1. Hank explained our predicament...
     汉克说明了我们的艰难处境。
  2. The decision will leave her in a peculiar predicament.
     这个决定会让她处于尴尬的境地。

英英释义

noun

• a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
  1. finds himself in a most awkward predicament
  2. the woeful plight of homeless people
  Synonym:quandaryplight

双语例句

• To face the predicament, it requires government and business cooperate to adopt triple-pole measure to deal with.
  面对“三荒两高”困境，需要政府和企业采取三极措施联手应对。
• They are sympathetic to Germany's predicament.
  他们同情德国的困境。
• If you have no enemies, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.
  如果你没有敌人，你就容易陷入没有朋友的相同困境。
• Maclntyre's attention to virtue ethics originated from his reflection over the ethical predicament of the modern west.
  麦金太尔对于美德伦理的关注源于他对现代西方伦理困境的反思。
• It's really important that you understand the predicament you're in.
  意识到你现在的困境对你很重要。
• Beslan tragedy focused the predicament the international anti-terrorism movement is facing.
  别斯兰悲剧凸显了国际社会反恐的困境。
• Hank explained our predicament
  汉克说明了我们的艰难处境。
• In this paper, we take the nihilism predicament for basic problem, open the spirit implication defiladed transcendence the nihilism in Marx philosophy text.
  本论文将虚无主义困境作为基本问题，用以开显马克思哲学文本中被遮蔽了的潜在的超越虚无主义的精神资源。
• Many people have little sympathy with the companies 'predicament.
  许多人并不同情中国公司的困境。
• They must both have decided to come personally to extricate me from my predicament.
  想必她们两人都下决心要亲自来把我从困境中解救出来。