predicament

• n. 窘况，困境；状态

来自拉丁语praedicamentum,预测之事，分类，品质，词源同predicate.后借用该拉丁词来翻译希腊语kategoria,分类，该词为古希腊哲学家亚里士多德对当时的社会进行分类后创造出来的词，共十类，即being,quantity,quality,relation,place,time,posture,possession,action,passion.引申词义情况，状况，后特别用于指不好的情况，即困难，窘境。

1. a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;

"finds himself in a most awkward predicament"

"the woeful plight of homeless people"

predicament

predicament: [14] Predicament was originally a technical term in logic, denoting a ‘category of attributes which may be asserted of a thing’. It broadened out in the 16th century to ‘situation’, but it does not seem to have been until the 18th century that the specific modern sense ‘awkward situation’ became established. The word comes from late Latin praedicāmentum, a derivative of praedicāre ‘proclaim’ (source of English preach and predicate [16]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘in front of’, hence ‘in public’ and dicāre ‘make known’.
=> preach, predicate

predicament (n.)

early 15c., "category, class; one of Aristotle's 10 categories," from Medieval Latin predicamentum, from Late Latin praedicamentum "quality, category, something predicted, that which is asserted," from Latin praedicatus, past participle of praedicare (see predicate). Praedicamentum is a loan-translation of Greek kategoria, Aristotle's word. The meaning "unpleasant situation" is first recorded 1580s.

the club's financial predicament

俱乐部的财政困境

牛津词典

I'm in a terrible predicament.

我的处境十分尴尬。

牛津词典

Hank explained our predicament...

汉克说明了我们的艰难处境。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The decision will leave her in a peculiar predicament.

这个决定会让她处于尴尬的境地。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Hurstwood, on the contrary, saw in the strength of her new attractiveness his miserable predicament.

相反, 赫斯渥从她新展露的魅力中更感到自己处境悲惨可怜.

英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

Unfortunately, such differences have also contributed to the present predicament of the Chinese language.

然而, 这样的分歧,也同时造成了目前的华文困境.

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Little imagine west sheds an economics to be immersed in the predicament of the crisis already.

殊不知西方流行经济学早已陷入危机的困境.

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He hasn't realized his predicament yet.

他还没有意识到自己的尴尬处境.

《简明英汉词典》

This paper analyzes the predicament of information science in three aspects: theory, education and profession identity.

[中英文摘要]本文从学科理论 、 育、业认同三方面对世界范围的情报学困境进行了分析,指出情报学陷入困境的根源在于三方面: 强势学科的加入竞争,信息技术的发展和影响,情报学的内在局限性.

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Who can whether they want to about their predicament or not?

谁知道他们想不想谈论心中的痛苦?

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Which is always a tricky predicament to be in when she wants to start kissing you.

你知道当她想吻你的时候处境会很尴尬.

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Shenzhen should cast off these predicament, must realize an industry to upgrade with transition.

深圳要摆脱这些困境, 就必须实现产业升级和转型.

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Their temporary predicament called out the best in them.

他们的暂时困难激发他们作出最大的努力.

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At present pork up, make generator oneself predicament, hog production already began to up.

目前猪肉回升, 使生产者解脱了困境, 生猪生产已开始升温.

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Your refusal puts me in an awkward predicament.

你的拒绝让我感到十分为难.

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But while it is possible to sympathise with the Russian predicament, the ban is counterproductive.

虽然俄罗斯的困境可能令人同情, 但禁令会起到适得其反的效果.

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Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

生活并非奇观,亦非盛宴, 它是一种困境.

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So it is not the obvious place to start to explain the world economy's present predicament.

但是这个体系最适合分析稳步积累,而不是具有强烈周期性的投机交晚和破产清算.

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Many enterprises are washed out and annex, major company still struggles hard in predicament to now.

不少企业被淘汰和兼并, 大部分企业至今仍在困境中苦苦挣扎.

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I am in the identical predicament with yourself.

我和你处于同样的窘境之中.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

No one knew of our impending arrival much less of our mission or predicament.

谁也不知道我们马上就要到达,更不知道我们的使命和困境.

辞典例句

If customers are bankrupt, suppliers are likely to be in the same predicament.

如果顾客破产, 那么供应商可能会陷入同样的困境.

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The main causes for this institutional predicament involve court, litigant, judicial institution and lawsuIt'system.

造成涉诉信访制度困境的原因主要有法院的原因 、 当事人的原因 、 司法体制的原因和诉讼制度的原因.

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It requests to organize to adjust strategy in time, coming out a predicament.

它要求组织及时调整战略, 走出困境.

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This may find Bush in a parallel predicament unto Nixon in the year ahead.

这将使布什在明年陷入同尼克松类似的困境中.

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Discussed off predicament and the measure that will expand chrysalis silk trade henceforth.

探讨了摆脱困境及今后发展茧丝绸行业的措施.

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S. dollar . And the current Bilateral Swap Arrangement in East Asia further falls China into predicament.

而现行的东亚双边货币互换合作机制的缺陷,进一步陷中国于困境.

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He made a clean breast of his predicament.

他坦白地讲出他的困境.

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For one thing, people can a lot of experience from a predicament.

第一, 人们可在逆境中积累大量的经验.

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