形容词危险的; 不确定的; 不安全的; 可疑的
1. 不穩定:根据一项所谓的皮崔奎恩报告的数据,二百至三百万家庭难以支付住房款,这些家庭生活在不稳定(precarious)、不舒适(uncomfortable)的状况中. 过去几十年,为解决.(address)住房问题而制定的政策(policy)已经发生了变化,
2. 不稳定的:preattentive process 前注意过程 | precarious 不稳定的 | precausal thinking 前因果思维
3. 不稳定/危险:precipitous 陡峭的 | precarious 不稳定/危险 | prevaricate 支吾其词
4. 危险的:preacher 传道者 | precarious 危险的 | precaution 预防
1. (局势)不确定的,不稳定的,危险的
If your situation is precarious, you are not in complete control of events and might fail in what you are doing at any moment.
e.g. Our financial situation had become precarious.
我们的财务状况已变得不稳定了。
e.g. ...the Government's precarious position.
政府的危险处境
adj
1. affording no ease or reassurance
e.g. a precarious truce
Synonym: unstable
2. fraught with danger
e.g. dangerous waters
a parlous journey on stormy seas
a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat
the precarious life of an undersea diver
dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery
Synonym: parlousperiloustouch-and-go
3. not secure
beset with difficulties
e.g. a shaky marriage
Synonym: shaky