peril
peril 英 [ˈperəl] 美 [ˈpɛrəl]
n. 危险；冒险 vt. 危及；置…于险境
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- If you realize mid-climb that your rock climbing rope is frayed, you might be in peril. The word peril means imminent danger to life and limb.
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- n. 危险；冒险
- vt. 危及；置…于险境
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1. We believe this at our peril.
我们相信这个是危险的。
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2. The past made us what we are now, and we forget it at our peril.
过去造就了我们现在的样子，我们忘掉它是危险的。
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3. But as with the Holocaust, if we forget, we do so at great peril to our own humanity.
但是与大屠杀一样，如果我们遗忘它，那么我们就会冒着重复它极大的危险。
- peril (n.) c. 1200, from Old French peril "danger, risk" (10c.), from Latin periculum "an attempt, trial, experiment; risk, danger," with instrumentive suffix -culum and first element from PIE *peri-tlo-, suffixed form of root *per- (3) "to try, risk."
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