predicament
英 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]
美 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]
n. 尴尬的处境; 困境; 窘境
复数:predicaments
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- the club's financial predicament
俱乐部的财政困境 - I'm in a terrible predicament.
我的处境十分尴尬。
- the club's financial predicament
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.- Hank explained our predicament...
汉克说明了我们的艰难处境。 - The decision will leave her in a peculiar predicament.
这个决定会让她处于尴尬的境地。
- Hank explained our predicament...
英英释义
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
双语例句
- No one knew of our impending arrival much less of our mission or predicament.
谁也不知道我们马上就要到达,更不知道我们的使命和困境。 - You may call upon us when you need another viewpoint to your current paradigm and predicament, one of a broader perspective and understanding.
你可以召唤我们,当你需要对自己当前的范式与困境带来另一个观点&一个更宽广的视角和理解时。 - 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。 - My husband and I were in a similar predicament last summer only I was six months pregnant.
去年夏季,我丈夫和我处于类似的困境只不过当时我有了6个月的身孕。 - 'It must be very difficult,' said Hunter, feeling a surge of embarrassment for Diane's predicament
“那肯定不好过,”亨特说,突然为黛安娜的困境感到很为难。 - Hank explained our predicament
汉克说明了我们的艰难处境。 - 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。 - Many people have little sympathy with the companies 'predicament.
许多人并不同情中国公司的困境。 - 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。 - The transformation of educational informationization is necessity demand for breaking through the bottleneck and walking out the predicament.
教育信息化转型是教育信息化突破瓶颈,走出困境,进一步发展的必然要求。