Dreye权威释义 | predicament

n.[C]

尴尬的处境，困境；危境
She was in a predicament when she missed the last train home.
当她错过最后一班回家的火车时，陷入了困境。
处境，境况，情况
【逻】范畴

辨析

同义:

n.状态；困局

mess complication plight embarrassment pinch dilemma

同义参见:

grief scrape fix quandary plight¹ difficulty

以上来源于：《英汉大辞典》

/prɪˈdɪkəm(ə)nt/

n.

a difficult situation.
Philosophy each of the ten categories in Aristotelian logic.

Etymology

ME (orig. in sense ‘category’, later ‘state of being’, hence ‘difficult situation’): from late L. praedicamentum ‘something predicated’ (rendering Gk katēgoria ‘category’), from L. praedicare (see predicate).

以上来源于：《简明牛津英语词典》