precarious
precarious 英 [prɪˈkeəriəs] 美 [prɪˈkeriəs]
adj. 危险的；不确定的
- Grab for the adjective precarious when something is unstable, dangerous or difficult and likely to get worse. Are you totally broke and the people you owe money to keep calling? You're in a precarious financial situation!
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- adj. 危险的；不确定的
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1. Even the last hermit in his cave will have found out by now that just saving his precious hide has become a very precarious endeavour, indeed.
就连最后一个洞里的隐居者现在也已经发现要保护他那宝贵的隐藏之地确实都成了很危险的任务。
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2. Before you answer, consider this: Two weeks ago, I alerted members of The Oxford Club to the precarious position of Chinese equities.
在你回答之前先考虑一下：两个星期前，我提醒牛津俱乐部的会员，要注意中国股市的不确定性。
- precarious (adj.) 1640s, a legal word, "held through the favor of another," from Latin precarius "obtained by asking or praying," from prex (genitive precis) "entreaty, prayer" (from PIE root *prek- "to ask, entreat"). Notion of "dependent on the will of another" led to extended sense "risky, dangerous, uncertain" (1680s). "No word is more unskillfully used than this with its derivatives. It is used for uncertain in all its senses; but it only means uncertain, as dependent on others ..." [Johnson]. Related: Precariously; precariousness.
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