【常用新聞英文語彙】precarious (adj)的6種用法


precarious (adj)

1.沒有保障。
Like many of the Med’s fishermen, life has become far more precarious for them. 但跟地中海許多漁夫一樣,生活對他們來說已經變得更加沒有保障。

2.不穩固。
It is as precarious as a two-legged stool. 它就像兩隻腳的凳子那樣不穩固。

3.危在旦夕。
His aides insisted he wouldn’t die in exile, but never has his fate seemed more precarious. 他的助理堅稱他不會在流亡的時候去世,但他的命運似乎不曾如此的危在旦夕。

4.險厄。
If there is some crisis in agriculture, the global food situation will become very, very precarious. 如果農業發生危機,全球糧食的情況將變得非常非常險厄。

5.險象環生的。
If he thought he had escaped a precarious start, he was fooling himself. 如果他認為他已經逃過險象環生的先發,他就是在騙自己。

6.危及。
As in the case of Haiti, scientists warned that the situations were precarious. 跟海地的情形一樣,科學家警告說情況危急。

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