predicament

英 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]

美 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]

n. 尴尬的处境; 困境; 窘境

复数：predicaments　

GRE TEM8

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

A British historian, Herbert Butterfield, called this the "absolute predicament and irreducible dilemma".
英国的历史学家赫伯特巴特菲尔德（herbertbutterfield）将这种现象称为“绝对的困境与无法摆脱的安全两难”。
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。
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。
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。
The decision will leave her in a peculiar predicament.
这个决定会让她处于尴尬的境地。
Many people have little sympathy with the companies 'predicament.
许多人并不同情中国公司的困境。
They are sympathetic to Germany's predicament.
他们同情德国的困境。
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。
Beslan tragedy focused the predicament the international anti-terrorism movement is facing.
别斯兰悲剧凸显了国际社会反恐的困境。
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。