其他形式

• (弃用)

词源

源自中古英語 ，源自古法語 和中世紀拉丁語 ，源自晚期拉丁語 (“分类”)。

发音

• 國際音標^(幫助)：/pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/

• （英国南部）音频：

  (檔案)

名词

(複數)

1. 分类
2. 困难，困境

   近義詞： ；亦參見Thesaurus:difficult situation

   • 1978, , The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism，頁號 xv (20th edition):

     Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 2011 12月 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, 出自 BBC Sport‎:

     The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

3. (邏輯學) 范畴

参见

延伸阅读

• “predicament”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “predicament”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 predicament 的释义