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English translation for "precarious"

[ pri'kɛəriəs ] 
adj.
1.不确定的,靠不住的;危险的,(生活等)不安定的。
2.(推测等)可疑的;前提有问题的,根据不充足的。
3.〔古语〕由他人摆布的。
短语和例子

adv.
-ly ,-ness n.
Example Sentences:
1.Would not that be precarious for him ?
这对他难道不是太不保险吗?
2.He holds his life on a precarious tenure .
他过着朝不保夕的生活。
3.At present, his health is very precarious .
在目前,他的健康情况是很使人担心的。
4.They were going to cross a precarious suspension bridge .
他们要渡过一些危险的吊桥。
5.I'm sure you have heard of his precarious infancy .
我相信你们都曾听说过他多灾多难的幼年。
6.My position was thus at the same time unprecedentedly strong and precarious .
因而我的地位是空前地强大,又是空前地汲汲可危。
7.Early-modern governments were engaged in a precarious hand-to-mouth living .
早期近代的政府也是过着不安定的,收入仅敷支出的日子。
8.The hunt for game was too precarious ever to have formed an exclusive means of human support .
狩猎又太无保证,始终不能成为维持人类生活的专门手段。
9.Scotland, his native country, stood at this time in a very precarious and doubtful situation .
他的家乡苏格兰,其时正处于动荡不安,前途不稳的局面。
10.The slovaks, who had been used as a pawn by germany, obtained a precarious autonomy .
曾被德国用来做棋盘上的卒子的斯洛伐克人,获得了朝不保夕的自治。
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