a difficult or an unpleasant situation, especially one where it is difficult to know what to do尴尬的处境；困境；窘境 synonym quandary- the club’s financial predicament俱乐部的财政困境
- I'm in a terrible predicament.我的处境十分尴尬。🔊🔊
Extra Examples- Many young people find themselves in this predicament.许多年轻人都发现自己身处这一困境。
- Now I really was in a dire predicament.现在我确实处境很悲惨。
- Other companies are in an even worse predicament than ourselves.其他公司的处境甚至比我们更糟糕。
- She was searching for the right words to explain her predicament.她正在寻找合适的词语来解释她的困境。
- When I was your age, I was in a similar predicament.我在你这个年龄时处在相似的困境中。
- He explained his predicament to the librarian.他向图书馆员解释了他的困境。
- They are not to blame for their current predicament.他们不应为目前的困境负责。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectiveverb + predicamentprepositionSee full entry Word Originlate Middle English (in Aristotelian logic): from late Latin praedicamentum ‘something predicated’ (rendering Greek katēgoria ‘category’), from Latin praedicare, from prae ‘beforehand’ + dicare ‘make known’. From the sense ‘category’ arose the sense ‘state of being, condition’; hence ‘unpleasant situation’.