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

• They are sympathetic to Germany's predicament.
  他们同情德国的困境。
• But many Asians blame their present predicament on dollar hegemony, which is the core of the money-glut hypothesis.
  但许多亚洲人将他们目前的困境归咎于美元霸权，这是资金过剩说的核心。
• 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。
• Then they set out to reform the dollar-based monetary order, which they blamed for their predicament.
  接着，他们指责建立在美元基础上的国际货币秩序导致他们陷入了困境，并着手推动相关改革。
• The major cause of this predicament is the lack of funds to put and maintain an abattoir.
  主要原因这一困境是缺乏资金，付诸表决，并保持一个屠场。
• 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。
• Actually, the current retry procedure has already sunk into a predicament as well.
  现行刑事再审程序的运作实际上也已陷入了困境。
• 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。
• 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。
• Although this may be sad to hear it is the truth of our predicament.
  尽管这可能听起来让人难过，但这就是我们困境的事实。