predicament
noun /prɪˈdɪkəmənt/
/prɪˈdɪkəmənt/
- a difficult or an unpleasant situation, especially one where it is difficult to know what to do
尴尬的处境；困境；窘境 - the club’s financial predicament
俱乐部的财政困境 - I'm in a terrible predicament.
我的处境十分尴尬。
- Many young people find themselves in this predicament.
许多年轻人都发现自己身处这一困境。 - Now I really was in a dire predicament.
现在我确实处境很悲惨。 - Other companies are in an even worse predicament than ourselves.
其他公司的处境甚至比我们更糟糕。 - She was searching for the right words to explain her predicament.
她正在寻找合适的词语来解释她的困境。 - When I was your age, I was in a similar predicament.
我在你这个年龄时处在相似的困境中。 - He explained his predicament to the librarian.
他向图书管理员解释了自己的困境。 - They are not to blame for their current predicament.
他们目前的困境不应归咎于他们。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- awful
- difficult
- dire
- …
- be caught in
- be in
- face
- …
- in a/the predicament
词源late Middle English (in Aristotelian logic): from late Latin praedicamentum ‘something predicated’ (rendering Greek katēgoria ‘category’), from Latin praedicare, from prae ‘beforehand’ + dicare ‘make known’. From the sense ‘category’ arose the sense ‘state of being, condition’; hence ‘unpleasant situation’. - the club’s financial predicament