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单词 plight
释义
plight
(plt )
Word forms: plights
countable noun [usually singular]
If you refer to someone's plight, you mean that they are in a difficult or distressing situation that is full of problems.
...the worsening plight of developing nations plagued by debts. [+ of]
Synonyms: difficulty, condition, state, situation  
Collocations:
economic plight
In the blue world we need more understanding of the economic plight of those left behind by globalisation and bewildered by a new multicultural world.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It involves a set of trade unions protesting about their economic plight and placing the blame for this distress on employers and ministers.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They are not to blame for the present economic plight.
The Sun (2012)
financial plight
Homeowners who benefit would pay interest on a smaller, more manageable mortgage and rent to the housing association, while receiving guidance on their financial plight.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The scope of the Met's financial plight became increasingly horrifying.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003)
The striker was criticised by fans after voicing concerns about the club 's financial plight.
The Sun (2014)
sad plight
Another ruling ended the sad plight of war widows.
Times, Sunday Times
Petty cruelties by police and officials increase their sad plight.
Times, Sunday Times
Her sad plight encapsulates the dilemma faced by the fashion industry, which flaunts thinness as the holy grail, yet flinches from confronting its dark side.
Times, Sunday Times
worsen the plight of
These proposals would worsen their plight.
Times, Sunday Times
But let's be clear: the wrong kind of investment will worsen the plight of the world's poorest and undermine development efforts.
Times, Sunday Times
Any obstacles or hindrances will only worsen the plight of our refugees who are already performing prodigious feats of endurance.
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He warned it risked worsening their plight as medics are not prepared.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 困境
Japanese: 苦境
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