jeopardy
jeopardy 英 [ˈdʒepədi] 美 [ˈdʒepərdi]
n. 危险；危险境地
名词复数:jeopardies
- To be in jeopardy is to be in danger. Eating three plates of nachos a day may improve your chances of winning your office's nacho-eating contest; unfortunately, it could also put your health in jeopardy.
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- n. 危险；危险境地
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1. Their future is in jeopardy.
他们的前景处于危险之中.
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2. You have placed his soul in jeopardy.
你已经陷害了他灵魂.
- jeopardy (n.) late 14c., jupartie , ioparde, etc., "danger, risk;" earlier "a cunning plan, a stratagem" (c. 1300), from or based on Old French jeu parti "a lost game," more correctly "a divided game, game with even chances" (hence "uncertainty"). The sense perhaps developed in Anglo-French.
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