predicament

參見：prédicament

英語

其他形式

• prædicament (棄用)

詞源

源自中古英語 predicament，源自古法語 predicament和中世紀拉丁語 prēdicāmentum，源自晚期拉丁語 praedicāmentum (「分類」)。

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/

• （英國南部）音頻

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名詞

predicament (複數 predicaments)

1. 分類
2. 困難，困境

   近義詞： tight spot；亦參見Thesaurus:difficult situation

   • 1978, Daniel Bell, The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism，頁號 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.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 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.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

3. (邏輯學) 範疇

衍生詞彙

• egocentric predicament
• predicament bondage

 

相關詞彙

• preach
• predicate

參見

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

延伸閱讀

• 「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 在線詞典 上有關 predicament 的釋義