predicament

参见：prédicament

英语

其他形式

• prædicament (弃用)

词源

源自中古英语 predicament，源自古法语 predicament和中世纪拉丁语 prēdicāmentum，源自晚期拉丁语 praedicāmentum (“分类”)。

发音

• 国际音标^(帮助)：/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/

• （英国南部）音频

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名词

predicament (复数 predicaments)

1. 分类
2. 困难，困境

   近义词： tight spot；亦参见Thesaurus:difficult situation

   • 1978, Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism，页号 xv (20th edition):

     Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.

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   • 2011 12月 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, 出自 BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.

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3. (逻辑学) 范畴

衍生词汇

• egocentric predicament
• predicament bondage

 

相关词汇

• preach
• predicate

参见

• can of worms
• difficulty
• kettle of fish
• tight spot
• trouble

延伸阅读

• “predicament”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “predicament”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 predicament 的释义