Dreye權威釋義 | predicament

n.[C]

尷尬的處境，困境；危境
She was in a predicament when she missed the last train home.
當她錯過最後一班回家的火車時，陷入了困境。
處境，境況，情況
【邏】範疇

辨析

同義:

n.狀態；困局

mess complication plight embarrassment pinch dilemma

同義參見:

grief scrape fix quandary plight¹ difficulty

以上來源於：《英漢大辭典》

/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).

以上來源於：《簡明牛津英語詞典》