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单词 predicament
释义
predicament
noun[C]
formal
uk
/prɪˈdɪk.ə.mənt/us
/prəˈdɪk.ə.mənt/
anunpleasantsituationthat isdifficultto get out of:
尴尬的处境，窘境，困境
She ishopingto get aloanfrom herbanktohelpher out of herfinancialpredicament.她希望能从银行得到一笔贷款以摆脱经济困境。
I'm in abitof a predicament because I'veaccidentallyacceptedtwoinvitationstodinneron the samenight.我有些左右为难，因为我无意间接受了同一天晚上两个晚餐的邀请。
Synonyms
mess(PROBLEMS)
plight
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
  • a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
  • a rough rideidiom
  • abyss
  • adversity
  • atyourworstidiom
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  • bad hair day
  • emergence
  • epidemic
  • genie
  • half nelson
  • hardness
  • have a bumpy rideidiom
  • rabbit hole
  • reversal
  • rigour
  • rollercoaster
  • the Augean Stablesidiom
  • the hard wayidiom
  • vortex
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(Definition ofpredicamentfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

predicament| American Dictionary

predicament
noun[C]
us
/prɪˈdɪk·ə·mənt/
anunpleasantorconfusingsituationthat isdifficultto get out of orsolve:
With nomoneyand nojob, hefoundhimself in arealpredicament.
(Definition ofpredicamentfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpredicament

predicament
Such depositions are thus seen as ' psychic documents which recount particular predicaments ' (p. 201).
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Here, on the other hand, in wanting to begin to become truth by becoming subjective, subjectivity is in thepredicamentof being untruth.
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He elaborates on thepredicamentin which states had no nations to correspond to them.
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Communication predicaments of aging : patronizing behavior toward older adults.
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To be caught by surprise is apredicamentin which delight and discomfort may mingle coequally.
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In meting out judgments, we are often faced with thepredicamentthat those who design evil are not necessarily those who give effect to it.
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The community of natural scientists finds the humanpredicament, and its population component, very alarming.
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It represents an attempt to respond to and address universal problems intrinsic to the humanpredicament.
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Rather, diaspora is bothpredicamentand opportunity, forcing its differently identified 'members' continually to address their differences, whatever their common goals.
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We get another indication of thepredicamentthrough criticism levelled privately against them by family members and friends.
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Rather, they set out to provide a facet of political behaviour by relating it to privatepredicament.
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The colonialpredicamentunleashed changes that led to a rethinking of identities within the indigenous social hierarchy.
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Thispredicamentwas made clear by the second principle, the necessity to air repressed grievances in a public arena.
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One observation that all the commentators shared was my 'evident sympathy for the villagers'predicament'.
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Is there a way out of thispredicament?
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Collocationswithpredicament

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These are words often used in combination withpredicament.

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current predicament
A casual examination seems to give little room for cheer, especially considering the unprecented scale and numerous irreversibilities in ourcurrentpredicament.
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economic predicament
Those who boarded the northbound buses therefore did so because they could see no other solution to their desperateeconomicpredicament.
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financial predicament
However, the financial predicament of 50% of them did impinge directly upon their early development.
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