| 单词 | imminent peril |
| 释义 | imminent peril noun[U] ukusINSURANCE,LAW asituationin which something verybadislikelytohappen, forexamplethat you might be sobadlyhurtthat you areunlikelytosurvive: Under Californialaw, apersonmay usedeadlyforceinself-defenseif theybelievethey are inimminentperilofdeathorseriousinjury. Examplesofimminent perilimminent peril Voluntarily and at his ownimminentperilwent into the enemy's lines at night and, under a sharp fire, rescued a wounded comrade. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The duress must involve the threat ofimminentperilof death or serious injury, operating on the defendant's mind and overbearing his will. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the face of theimminentperilconfronting his homeland, he was filled with fury and grief. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the absence ofimminentperil, the actions of a rescuer may be perceived by the courts to be reckless and not worthy of protection. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.With no food and no gas to melt the snow into water, the team members were inimminentperil. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The court held that the defence was available as long as the crime was a reasonable and proportionate response to animminentperilof death or serious injury. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For without such recovery we should have been today inimminentperilof bankruptcy, if not of starvation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 But can anybody really believe that suddenly, at this last moment, these traders have become inimminentperil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Some travellers have described theimminentperilthey encountered in attempting to explore these forbidden haunts. FromProject Gutenberg So far as it was accompanied by warnings, these were evidently general rather than elicited by any definite andimminentperilto the churches. FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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