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

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。
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。
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”。
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。
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 order to extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he lied abominably.
为了摆脱窘境，他采取了最简单的方法，撒了一个弥天大谎。
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。
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 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。
Hank explained our predicament
汉克说明了我们的艰难处境。