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单词 precarious
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precarious
(prɪkriəs )
1. adjective
If your situation is precarious, you are not in complete control of events and might fail in what you are doing at any moment.
Our financial situation had become precarious.
...the Government's precarious position.
Synonyms: insecure, dangerous, uncertain, tricky  
precariously adverb [ADVERB with verb, ADVERB adjective/adverb]
The hunter-gatherer lifestyle today survives precariously in remote regions.
precariousness uncountable noun
Wells was well aware of the precariousness of human life. [+ of]
2. adjective
Something that is precarious is not securely held in place and seems likely to fall or collapse at any moment.
They looked rather comical as they crawled up precarious ladders.
precariously adverb [ADVERB with verb, ADVERB adjective/adverb]
One of my grocery bags was still precariously perched on the car bumper.
Collocations:
increasingly precarious
The situation was becoming increasingly precarious.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But to the population in these areas it will feel increasingly precarious,' she said.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
precarious finances
The family's precarious finances are a huge concern.
Times, Sunday Times
This guy could be in charge of our nation's often precarious finances.
The Sun
Yes, in just eight years' time, so wrecking its already precarious finances and causing a general operational meltdown.
Times, Sunday Times
The damage was extensive, and the park's precarious finances forced the park to go out of business.
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This greatly strained the already precarious finances of the domain, which could only be resolved by placing the domain into great debt.
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precarious future
In the absence of answers we are inclined towards a form of pessimism about the unknown and precarious future.
Times, Sunday Times
Those who work in customer-facing sectors, such as retailing or hospitality, face a precarious future in an age of social distancing.
Times,Sunday Times
Welfare measures, including newly imported hurdles, have brought welcome improvements in the attrition rate but any high-risk sport has a precarious future if judged entirely by its accidents.
Times, Sunday Times
precarious life
So young, so alive, so unaware of how precarious life can be.
Times, Sunday Times
Only in the postmodern world has a new perception of the world's fragility been created in us: and with it an understanding of the precarious life of a 21st-century monster.
Times, Sunday Times
As winter draws on, it looks as if our author's precarious life as a journalist and polemicist has landed him in his most parlous situation yet.
The Times Literary Supplement
It was a world of precarious life and insecurity where trade degenerated into a raiding economy.
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Many agricultural people moved to cities and threw themselves into new precarious lives.
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precarious living
He wrote in his autobiography that 'my family was one of twenty or so making a precarious living from the land there'.
Times, Sunday Times
It's a precarious living - their clients may be unable or unwilling to pay them, and corrupt cops are circling for bribes.
Times,Sunday Times
By contrast, self-employment can provide freedom and independence, but it might also mean a more precarious living — and very long hours.
Times, Sunday Times
He made a precarious living as a freelance art critic, translator and editor but without ever achieving much renown.
Times, Sunday Times
Most miners earn a precarious living working long hours in dangerous and unhealthy conditions.
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precarious nature
Those who read the prospectus for the company had no doubt about its potentially precarious nature.
Times, Sunday Times
But for now, at least, the seals seem to have adapted to the precarious nature of their volcanic home.
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It highlights the precarious nature of boarding school finances.
Times,Sunday Times
It's a stark, sad and crushingly honest reflection on the precarious nature of life and love featuring her distinctive vocals backed by simple guitar, bass and drums.
The Sun
The show reminds us of the precarious nature of net-based relationships.
The Times Literary Supplement
precarious state
Given the precarious state of the job market, she has been exploring ways of protecting herself.
Times, Sunday Times
The sudden decline in house buying and the precarious state of many developers give some force to their arguments.
Times, Sunday Times
One character contends that, in our present ecologically precarious state, what's needed are compelling novels about the fate not of people but the planet.
Times, Sunday Times
Numerous houses were not just empty but in a precarious state of collapse.
Times, Sunday Times
They allowed investors to be misled about the precarious state of the balance sheet as management ruled out a rights issue just three weeks before announcing one.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 不安定的
Japanese: 不安定な
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