| 释义 |
dilemma /di-, dī-lemˈə/ noun- A position where each of two alternative courses (or of all the feasible courses) is eminently undesirable
- (loosely) a predicament, problem
- A form of argument in which the maintainer of a certain proposition is committed to accept one of two propositions each of which contradicts his or her original contention (the argument was called a ‘horned syllogism’, and the victim compared to a man certain to be impaled on one or other of the horns of an infuriated bull, hence the horns of a dilemma; logic)
ORIGIN: L, from Gr dilēmma, from di- twice, double and lēmma an assumption, from lambanein to take dilemmatˈic adjective on the horns of a dilemma In a dilemma (see comments above) |