Predicament

(noun.) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one; 'finds himself in a most awkward predicament'; 'the woeful plight of homeless people'.

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• I'm not playing, I never do, said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Being some time afterwards in such a predicament, and having promised to apply to him, I sent to him for a hundred guineas. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• This is a distressing predicament for these young people,' thought Mr. Pickwick, as he dressed himself next morning. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Very little of the beef was done either; and the ham (which was also from the German-sausage shop round the corner) was in a similar predicament. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• But the American cuckoo is in this predicament, for she makes her own nest and has eggs and young successively hatched, all at the same time. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• As we were to learn later, this precaution saved us from dire predicament, and was eventually the means of our salvation. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• In this predicament he ventured on the hazardous experiment of taking his steam-vessel by sea, and successfully accomplished his voyage from New York to Delaware. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• The same people who with daily insistence say that innovators ignore facts are in the absurd predicament of trying to still human wants with petty taboos. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This vast mysterious Wall Street world of tips and deals--might she not find in it the means of escape from her dreary predicament? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.

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