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. Had he told the truth then, he would not be in this predicament.
如果他在当时讲出了实情，他就不会处于现在这种困境中。
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2. In other words, you may not be sure what to do next in this predicament.
换句话说，您可能并不知道您在这种状态下，接下来要做什么。
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3. If you find yourself in this predicament, I encourage you to take the blue pill and wake up from your impending nightmare.
如果你发现你正处于这种困境中，我鼓励你吃下蓝色的药丸然后从即将发生的噩梦中醒过来。
- 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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