precarious
美 [prɪˈkeriəs]
英 [prɪˈkeəriəs] 
- adj.不稳的;不确定的;不保险的;危险的
- 网络不稳定的;不安全的;不安定的
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英汉双解
1. | 不稳的;不确定的;不保险的;危险的not safe or certain; dangerous |
| He earned a precarious living as an artist. 作为一个艺术家,他过的是朝不保夕的生活。 |
| The museum is in a financially precarious position. 这家博物馆的财政状况不稳定。 |
2. | 摇摇欲坠的;不稳固的likely to fall or cause sb to fall |
| That ladder looks very precarious. 那梯子看来摇摇晃晃的。 |
| The path down to the beach is very precarious in wet weather. 通往海滨的小路在雨天非常湿滑危险。 |
英汉解释
adj. | 1. 不确定的,靠不住的;危险的,(生活等)不安定的 |
英英解释
例句
Finally , we've begun to understand, how precarious is the state of our once lucky planet.
最终,我们明白,我们曾经幸运的星球其状态时多么的脆弱。
The company has since been losing orders and customers due to its precarious financial situation and the overall global economic downturn.
该公司由于其不稳定的财政状况及全球经济衰退的大环境一直在失去订单和客户。
But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position.
但是就在刚刚进入21世纪的几年前,我们发现自己处在了不同以往而并不稳定的位置。
A warning voice told him that this campaign, even so far, was too dangerous for a man in his precarious position.
一个声音在告诫着他,这场战役对于他那样一个地位摇摇欲坠的人,即使是不再往下开展,也是极其危险的了。
Almost a week later, Trotter faces another consequence of her family's precarious financial condition.
大约一星期后,Trotter又面临家庭财务状况不稳定的另一个后果。
Alarm and grief at the crisis in his wife's precarious health were enough to distract Liang.
警报和伤心事在他的妻子不稳定的健康危机对转移两是充足的。
More respectable colonists began to arrive, but growth continued to be precarious.
更多可敬的殖民来到这里,但增长仍岌岌可危。
For a few weeks in this precarious, partly imaginary warmth, the gods permit you to have your cake and eat it.
在这种部份出于想象,飘忽不定的温暖之中,每年会有几个星期上帝让你兼得鱼与熊掌。
As you will know by now the financial state of the world is precarious and collapsing, which will take their power base with it.
正如你们会知道的,到目前为止世界的金融局势是不稳定的和正在崩溃的,这将拿走它们的以它(金融)为基础的权力。
Our situation was too precarious: two women trying to get academic jobs in the same place, one with only a temporary visa.
我们那时的状况还很不稳定:两个女人都在努力找份教职工作,一个人的签证还只是临时的。
The three dollars he received for the triolets he used to eke out a precarious existence against the arrival of the WHITE MOUSE check.
他拿三篇小三重奏的三块钱凑合着应付到了《白鼠》的支票到达。
The design includes a grand green roof that, although it seems to slope at quite a precarious angle, is accessible for people to walk on.
设计主要包括一个巨大的绿色屋顶,尽管看上去屋顶倾斜的角度有些危险,但是仍然能让人行走在上面。
Even with an African American couple in the White House, the fate of the black family in America has never been so precarious.
尽管白宫入驻了一对非裔美国人夫妇,美国黑人家庭的命运从没像今天一样不靠谱。
Ms Delgado said the rise in abortions among these women was partly due to precarious economic conditions.
在德尔加多女士看来,这些女性之所以越来越多的选择堕胎,其部分原因在于自身经济状况的不稳定性。
But it highlights the increasingly precarious financial position Hicks finds himself in.
但是日益严峻的财务状态只有希克斯心知肚明。
That was just as well: its current state is awfully precarious.
不过其实也差不了多少:美国的现状极其不安定。
Among the growing complaints, TEPCO was accused of ignoring warnings that the Fukushima plant was in a precarious location.
在不断增长的投诉,东京电力公司被指控无视警告说,福岛工厂是一个危险的位置。
Mr Tremonti has become a sort of guarantor for the markets that his unpredictable boss will not rock Italy's precarious boat.
特雷蒙蒂已经成为对于当下形势的某种担保人,其难于捉摸的老板并不愿意晃动意大利那不安稳的小船(内阁)。
The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes, there has never been peace in the world.
人类的历史就是战争,除了短暂而不稳定的间歇之外,世界上小噢拿过来不曾有和平。
Approaches as history recording, cause analysis and prediction means could be applied to determine the regional precarious disasters.
区域灾害识别可采用历史记录法、成因分析法、预测法等方法。
A warning voice told him that this campaign, even so far, was too dangerous for a man in his precarious position.
一个声音在告诫着他,这场战役对于他那样一个地位摇摇欲坠的人,即使是不再往下开展,也是极其危险的了。
He was sensible that he existed only by the precarious indulgence of his name sake Duncan of Knockdunder.
他知道,他之所以能在这立足,仅仅是由于和他同名的人--诺克邓达的邓肯的姑息。
My position was thus at the same time unprecedentedly strong and precarious.
因而我的地位是空前地强大,又是空前地汲汲可危。
Its precarious stability will be jeopardised further if Mr Zardari proves to be right and the war against the Taliban is being lost.
如果事实证明扎尔达里说对了,即我们正在输掉打击塔利班的战争,那么这将进一步危及巴基斯坦极为脆弱的稳定。
They worry that the precarious governing coalition lacks political will, and that the crisis is unfairly hitting the poor.
他们担心岌岌可危的联合政府缺少政治意愿,而且屋漏偏逢连夜雨,经济危机重创脆弱的经济。
This precarious situation is further exacerbated by the fact that Yemen's population is expected to double in the next 15 years.
这种糟糕的情况很可能将来变得更加恶化,因为预计15年内也门全国人口将增加一倍。
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。
Playing games with working capital like this is not for those who like a quiet life, and is a precarious method of financing an enterprise.
像这样耍手腕来筹措营运资金,是一种不牢靠的企业融资方式,不适合那些喜欢平静生活的人。
It's the briny broth of our origins, the pounding circulatory system of the world, a precarious molecular edge on which we survive.
生命来源于海洋,海洋是地球循环系统的关键一环,这些不稳定的小分子使我们的生存基础。
They also had set up a treadmill in a precarious place: on the edge of a countertop overlooking an open tank of flesh-eating fish.
此外,他们还在一个危险的地方摆放跑步机,就放在台子上,旁边是未加盖的鱼缸,缸里养的是肉食鱼类。
Some animals have to take perpetual struggle for the preservation of a perilous and precarious existence.
有些动物不得不为了维护危险的、不稳定的生存而进行不断的斗争。
But that sense of increasing physical security remains precarious, and psychological security is something else.
但是这种正在增强的物理安全仍是摇摇欲坠的,而心理安全则是另一码事。
But precarious mental health is not the only risk for long-term addiction.
但精神异常并非长期上瘾的唯一风险。
The 4-wheel drive flies over the rims of the dunes at such precarious angles that for a moment you feel the jeep will topple over.
4轮驱动苍蝇在轮缘的沙丘在这种不稳定的角度,对于一个时刻你觉得吉普车将倒下。
The fate of a quarter of a million civilians trapped in a Tiger-controlled pocket of territory remains precarious and unknown.
一百万斯平民中的四分之一被困在猛虎组织控制的地区里,他们的命运依然难以预测,令人堪忧。
Americans might well see this as an attack on their historical right to own a home no matter how precarious their finances.
美国人很可能会将此看做是对于他们拥有自己的住房的历史权利(不论其财务状况多么糟糕)的侵犯。
As capitalism has advanced it has returned most people to a new version of the precarious existence of Marx's proles.
随着资本主义的发展,它让大多数的人对马克思无产阶级的朝不保夕的生活有了新的看法。
Everything's a little precarious, between the postmortem and the tubes in and out all week.
每件事情都有点扑簌迷离,整个一周徘徊在尸检和死亡的边缘。
The investigation comes at a precarious time for the IPCC and for advocates of tough measures to curb greenhouse-gas emissions.
调查进行之时,IPCC面临着不确定,支持采取强硬措施限制温室气体排放的人同样如此。
Democrats are facing an especially precarious version of that dilemma.
民主党面对困境尤其危险。
With this news came to the Bill and Kate as well as their life's precarious marriage and a swarm of paparazzi.
伴随着这则消息一起来到比尔和凯特生活里的还有他们岌岌可危的婚姻以及蜂拥而至的媒体。
Upon leaving (sometimes without passing the final exam), nearly 40% of these students find themselves in the precarious transitional system.
普通中学毕业的学生(有些学生甚至没有通过毕业考试)有近40%进入毫无保障的的综合学校学习。
Hodgson, Dorothy. Precarious Alliances: The Cultural Politics and Structural Predicaments of the Indigenous Rights Movement in Tanzania.
危险的结盟:坦尚尼亚原住民主权运动之文化政治与结构。