英 [prɪˈkeəriəs] 美 [prɪˈkeriəs]
adj. 摇摇欲坠的，不稳固的；（局势）不确定的，危险的
比较级more precarious
最高级most precarious
precarious /prɪˈkɛərɪəs/ CET6+ TEM8
形容词 If your situation is precarious, you are not in complete control of events and might fail in what you are doing at any moment. (情况) 不稳定的
Our financial situation had become precarious.
我们的财政状况已经不稳定了。
副词 不稳定地
We lived precariously. I suppose I wanted to squeeze as much pleasure from each day as I possibly could.
我们过着动荡不安的生活。我想我那时候是想从每一天中获取尽量多的快乐。
形容词 Something that is precarious is not securely held in place and seems likely to fall or collapse at any moment. 不稳固的
They looked really comical as they crawled up precarious ladders.
他们爬上摇摇晃晃的梯子时，看起来真滑稽。
副词 不稳固地
One of my grocery bags was still precariously perched on the car bumper.
我的一只购物袋还很不牢靠地悬挂在汽车保险杠上。
dangerously insecure
a precarious footing on the ladder
not secure; beset with difficulties
同义词： shaky
危险的；不确定的
...在附加赛资格区，球队同样希望能在下赛季重返英超赛场，不外该队最近4轮不胜且其中3场连败，第6名的位置已经岌岌可危(Precarious)，同时本场需要面对攻击力强大的西布朗，双方近5次交手李斯特城仅取得1胜1平3负明显处于劣势，本场其形势不容乐观。
...的圣何塞锦标赛照旧会依期实行，生活中若没有朋友，就像生活中没有阳光一样不过资本原因终于还会不会是一经风雨飘摇(Precarious)的斯坦福团体，你在打电话之前，可曾复诵一遍自己将要说的事？你对自己这一生中所经历的事，最讨厌什么？
... arduous 艰巨的，难以完成的，相当费力的，(因陡峭)难以攀登的 precarious 不稳定的，不安全的，不确定的，无法保证的 perilous 危险的 ...
例如： precarious(危险的)：cary像chary，小心的意思，需要pre-提前小心，这还不危险么; malodorous(恶臭的)：mal是恶性的前缀，odor是气味，放一起恶...
precariously 不安全地；不牢靠地
precariousness 不安全；不稳定
危险的；不确定的
dangerous / critical / risky / threatening
Our financial situation had become precarious.
我们的财政状况已经不稳定了。
That ladder looks very precarious.
那梯子看来摇摇晃晃的。
He earned a precarious living as an artist.
作为一个艺术家，他过的是朝不保夕的生活。
Many people are desperate to leave behind the rubble-strewn streets and precarious structures that have been weakened by dozens of aftershocks.
VOA : standard.2010.01.21
I think we're still in a precarious situation but I think we do have central bankers who are working effectively given the tools that they have.
我认为我们仍处于一个不稳固的情形之中,但是我们也有那些,用手中的金融工具有效率地工作的,中央银行主。
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Anyway, your loan-to-value ratio is getting pretty precarious because your house is now down 30% in value; your loan-to-value ratio, if we were to give you $5,000, would be something like 90%.
你的贷款价值比变得很不安全,因为你的房子已经贬值30%,如果我们借给你5000美金,你的贷款价值比率在90%左右
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The reintegration project is focused on the provinces of Herat and Farah in Western Afghanistan, where hundreds of thousands of Afghan returnees and internally displaced people are living in precarious conditions.
VOA : standard.2009.09.13
"I think there is still a reasonable chance they could pass something, but they are going to have to come back, I think,and regroup in September and we may see that things are a little bit different than they are today, even perhaps a little more precarious for the passage of health care in September,".
VOA : standard.2009.08.12
Though his position is precarious, she doesn't believe his role is necessarily entering its final days.
But this is a precarious strategy that is utterly dependent on preventing cracks in that base.
The organisation's statement acknowledged that the situation was precarious and the medical needs still great.