副词::precariously
名词::precariousness
"a precarious truce"
"dangerous waters"
"a parlous journey on stormy seas"
"a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"
"the precarious life of an undersea diver"
"dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery"
"a shaky marriage"
1.(局势)不确定的,不稳定的,危险的
If your situation isprecarious, you are not in complete control of events and might fail in what you are doing at any moment.
precarious
e.g. Our financial situation had becomeprecarious.
我们的财务状况已变得不稳定了。
e.g. ...the Government'sprecarious position.
政府的危险处境
2.不稳固的;不牢靠的
Something that isprecarious is not securely held in place and seems likely to fall or collapse at any moment.
e.g. They looked rather comical as they crawled upprecarious ladders.
他们顺着摇摇晃晃的梯子往上爬,看起来非常滑稽。
1. 不穩定:根据一项所谓的皮崔奎恩报告的数据,二百至三百万家庭难以支付住房款,这些家庭生活在不稳定(precarious)、不舒适(uncomfortable)的状况中. 过去几十年,为解决.(address)住房问题而制定的政策(policy)已经发生了变化,
2. precarious
2. 不稳定的:preattentive process 前注意过程 |precarious 不稳定的 | precausal thinking 前因果思维
3. 不稳定/危险:precipitous 陡峭的 |precarious 不稳定/危险 | prevaricate 支吾其词
4. precarious的反义词
4. 危险的:preacher 传道者 |precarious 危险的 | precaution 预防
Though the tenure is precarious, I cannot help liking the situation for you.
出自:Horace WalpoleShe would lose her husband, the chief prop of her precarious happiness.
出自:Anne Stevenson