quandary
quandary 英 [ˈkwɒndəri] 美 [ˈkwɑndəri]
n. 困惑；窘境；为难
名词复数:quandaries
- How to define the word quandary? Wow, this is quite a dilemma. What to do, what to do? Hmmm. Looks like this moment itself is a quandary: a tough situation that will be really hard to resolve.
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- n. 困惑；窘境；为难
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1. How to attract new customers to your product and website is the constant quandary of many businesses, small or large.
如何把新客户吸引到你的产品和网站上许多企业不断遇到的窘境，无论企业是大是小。
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2. But in China, due to the lack of honesty and credibility and the degradation of ethics, many firms face the quandary of "no evil, no profit.
但是在中国，由于缺乏诚信和低下的商业道德，许多企业开始面临一个窘境，不做恶就没有利润。
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3. This distributional quandary lies at the heart of the capitalist system, which is one of never-ending competition fueled by the drive to maximise profits.
这种分配的窘境正是基于资本主义体系的核心，由追求利润最大化而推动无休止的竞争。
- quandary (n.) "state of perplexity," 1570s, of unknown origin, perhaps a quasi-Latinism based on Latin quando "when? at what time?; at the time that, inasmuch," pronominal adverb of time, related to qui "who" (from PIE root *kwo-, stem of relative and interrogative pronouns). Originally accented on the second syllable.
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