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单词 precarious
释义
precarious
adjective
uk
/prɪˈkeə.ri.əs/us
/prɪˈker.i.əs/
in adangerousstatebecause of not beingsafeor not beingheldinplacefirmly:
危险的；不牢靠的，不稳的
Thelorrywaslodgedin a very precarious way, withitsfrontwheelshangingover thecliff.卡车的位置很危险，前轮悬在峭壁上面。
A precarioussituationislikelyto getworse:
（情势）不稳定的，不确定的，危险的
Many borrowers nowfindthemselvescaughtin a precariousfinancialposition.许多借款人现在发现自己陷入了不稳定的财务状况。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unsafe and insecure
  • appealingly
  • at stakeidiom
  • be on the lineidiom
  • day
  • in the firing lineidiom
  • indefensible
  • insecure
  • insecurely
  • insecurity
  • shaky
  • sketchy
  • someone's/something'sdays are numberedidiom
  • stake
  • struggle
  • threat
  • threatened
  • tippy
  • unbalanced
  • unstable
  • unsupervised
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(Definition ofprecariousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

precarious| American Dictionary

precarious
adjective
us
/prɪˈkeər·i·əs/
indangerbecause notfirmlyfixed;likelytofallorsufferharm:
Iclimbedonto a precariousplatformto get abetterview.

precariously

adverbus
/prɪˈkeər·i·əs·li/
Thevasewas precariouslyperchedon anarrowshelfnext to thedoor.
(Definition ofprecariousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprecarious

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Do the marginalised accord less legitimacy to state and government institutions than theprecariousand integrated?
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The current climate of scrutiny (without the infrastructure to respond within an adequate time) is making the position of student-led projects veryprecarious.
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However, 50% of the marginalised indicated that they would do nothing, as opposed to 18% of the integrated and 32% of theprecarious.
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Are the marginalised more dissatisfied with the political economic system than theprecariousand integrated ?
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Again, there is an association between being marginalised,precariousor integrated and tolerance for anti-democratic behaviour by government.
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Again, the larger proportion is found among the marginalised (26%), decreasing to 18% for theprecariousand 4% for the integrated.
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Alternatively, those in the middle may choose, temporarily, to leave the bureaucracy and operate, for instance, in electoral politics, from aprecarioussocial movement base.
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A close reading of these two protests shows the sometime 'citadel of the avant-garde' at a distinctlyprecariousmoment in its history.
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Employment isprecariousand unstable, offering few possibilities for expansion.
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His idealistic affirmations of citizenship begin to seem ratherprecariouswhen set against the racial conflicts taking place across the world.
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The framework provides a much fuller picture of why some groups of older people are in a moreprecariouseconomic situation than others.
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Challenging the authority gained through seniority may also be a threat to their slender orprecarioushold on power in the domestic sphere.
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The existing level of biodiversity, however, isprecarious.
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The literary energy of the recusant communion belied aprecariousminority position.
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Even the troop cost negotiations themselves in-uenced negatively con®dence in sterling, because they underlined quite dramatically howprecariousthe situation of sterling actually was.
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