predicament

英 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]

美 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]

n.  尴尬的处境; 困境; 窘境

复数：predicaments　

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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。
• 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。
• '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。
• These three components of the predicament feed each other: they also threaten international financial stability.
  欧洲困境的三个组成部分相互作用：它们也对国际金融稳定构成了威胁。
• 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。
• 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。
• The decision will leave her in a peculiar predicament.
  这个决定会让她处于尴尬的境地。
• 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 solution to this predicament lies in a different understanding of the way users master new concepts and tasks.
  解决方法在于理解各种用户掌握的新概念和任务的方式。
• 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。