predicament是什么意思_predicament怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;"finds himself in a most awkward predicament"
"the woeful plight of homeless people"

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中英词源

predicament 情况，困境，窘境

来自拉丁语praedicamentum,预测之事，分类，品质，词源同predicate.后借用该拉丁词来翻译希腊语kategoria,分类，该词为古希腊哲学家亚里士多德对当时的社会进行分类后创造出来的词，共十类，即being,quantity,quality,relation,place,time,posture,possession,action,passion.引申词义情况，状况，后特别用于指不好的情况，即困难，窘境。

predicament: predicament: [14] Predicament was originally a technical term in logic, denoting a ‘category of attributes which may be asserted of a thing’. It broadened out in the 16th century to ‘situation’, but it does not seem to have been until the 18th century that the specific modern sense ‘awkward situation’ became established. The word comes from late Latin praedicāmentum, a derivative of praedicāre ‘proclaim’ (source of English preach and predicate [16]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix prae- ‘in front of’, hence ‘in public’ and dicāre ‘make known’.
=> preach, predicate
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 (see predicate). Praedicamentum is a loan-translation of Greek kategoria, Aristotle"s word. The meaning "unpleasant situation" is first recorded 1580s.

词态变化

复数 predicaments;

权威造句

1. Hank explained our predicament.: 汉克说明了我们的艰难处境。

2. the club"s financial predicament: 俱乐部的财政困境

3. He hasn"t realized his predicament yet.: 他还没有意识到自己的尴尬处境.

4. I am in the identical predicament with yourself.: 我和你处于同样的窘境之中.

5. "It must be very difficult," said Hunter, feeling a surge of embarrassment for Diane"s predicament.: “那肯定不好过，”亨特说，突然为黛安娜的困境感到很为难。

近反义词

dilemma 困境

mess 混乱

quandary 困惑

complication 复杂

plight 困境

pinch 捏

embarrassment 困窘

difficulty 困难

fix 使 ... 固定

grief 悲痛

scrape 刮掉

jam 果酱

pickle 腌汁

tight spot 紧要关头

tight corner 紧要关头

相似短语

dire predicament 艰难处境

单词分析

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