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adj. 危险的；不确定的
adj.
危险的；不确定的；不安全的；可疑的
双语释义
adj.(形容词)不安全的;不稳定的unsafe;unsteady
英英释义
precarious[ pri'kεəriəs ]
adj.
affording no ease or reassurance
"a precarious truce"
同义词：unstable
fraught with danger
"the precarious life of an undersea diver"
同义词：parlousperiloustouch-and-go
dangerously insecure
"a precarious footing on the ladder"
not secure; beset with difficulties
同义词：shaky
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
She makes a rather precarious living as a novelist.
作为小说家，她过着不太稳定的生活。
Our financial situation is still precarious.
我们的财政状况仍不稳定。
What a precarious situation we were in when the avalanche started!
雪崩发生的时候我们的处境多么危险啊！
He was unable to get down from his precarious position on the rocks.
他无法从岩石危险的位置上下来。
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precarious
precarious: [17] Precarious comes from Latin precārius (source also of English prayer), which meant ‘obtained by asking or praying’. It was originally used in English as a legal term, in which ‘obtained by asking’ had undergone a slight change in focus to ‘held through the favour of another’. This introduced the notion that the favour might be withdrawn, and that the possession was therefore uncertain, and so the adjective soon came to be used for ‘depending on chance or caprice’ and, in the 18th century, ‘risky’.Latin precārius was derived from prex ‘prayer’, a close relative of precārī ‘ask, entreat, pray’, from which English gets pray.=> pray
precarious (adj.)
1640s, a legal word, "held through the favor of another," from Latin precarius "obtained by asking or praying," from prex (genitive precis) "entreaty, prayer" (see pray). Notion of "dependent on the will of another" led to extended sense "risky, dangerous, uncertain" (1680s). "No word is more unskillfully used than this with its derivatives. It is used for uncertain in all its senses; but it only means uncertain, as dependent on others ..." [Johnson]. Related: Precariously; precariousness.
1. a precarious foot hold
危险的立足点
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. precarious salary
入不敷出的薪水
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
3. Very precarious situation
燕巢幕上
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例 - 习语
4. A precarious posture;precarious footing on the ladder.
不安全的姿势；在梯子上没站稳
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
5. precarious labour
不稳定劳工
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
6. a precarious assumption assertion ]
靠不住的假定论断]
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
7. a precarious life
不安定的生活
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
8. a precarious argument
无确实根据的论点
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. a precarious posture
不安全的姿势
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
10. in a precarious manner.
以由他人摆布的方式。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
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