precarious

导读：precarious怎么读
英式音标：[prɪˈkeəriəs] 美式音标：[prɪˈkeriəs]
precarious基本解释 adj. 危险的；不确定的 precarious的意思释义 adj.危险的；不确定的；不安全的；可疑的

precarious怎么读

英式音标：[prɪˈkeəriəs]

美式音标：[prɪˈkeriəs]

precarious基本解释

adj. 危险的；不确定的

precarious的意思释义

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

precarious用法及例句

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*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。

例句参考

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Precarious life : the powers of mourning and violence

Precarious employment and health: developing a research agenda

Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition:

Precarious Collaboration: Business Survival After Partners Shut Down Or Form New Partnerships

Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers:

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs:The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s-2000s

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs: The Rise of Polarized and Precarious Employment Systems in the United States, 1970s-2000s

The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganization, and consequences for occupational health: a review of recent re...

The global expansion of precarious employment, work disorganization, and consequences for occupational health: placing the debate in...

precarious词源

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 This introduced the notion that the favour might be withdrawn, and that the possession was therefore uncertain, and so the adjective soon came to be used for ‘depending on chance or caprice’ and, in the 18th century,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.