predicament
predicament 英 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt] 美 [prɪˈdɪkəmənt]
n. 窘况，困境；状态
名词复数:predicaments
- If you're engaged to get married but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have gotten yourself into quite a predicament. A predicament is a difficult, confusing, and unpleasant situation.
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- n. 窘况，困境；状态
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1. the club's financial predicament
俱乐部的财政困境
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2. I'm in a terrible predicament.
我的处境十分尴尬。
- 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 "assert, proclaim, declare publicly," from prae- "forth, before" (see pre-) + dicare "proclaim" (from PIE root *deik- "to show," also "pronounce solemnly"). Praedicamentum is a loan-translation of Greek kategoria, Aristotle's word. The meaning "unpleasant situation" is first recorded 1580s.
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