英検1級【過去問】700単語 Precarious
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【選択肢】 propitious, lustrous, precarious, spasmodic
【ひとこと】
発音：prɪˈkɛəriəs
出る順パス単：あり
【英英辞書】
If your situation is precarious, you are not in complete control of events and might fail in what you are doing at any moment.
Something that is precarious is not securely held in place and seems likely to fall or collapse at any moment.
1. dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure
2. dependent on the will or pleasure of another; liable to be withdrawn or lost at the will of another
3. exposed to or involving danger; dangerous; perilous; risky
4. having insufficient, little, or no foundation
【語源】 Etymology
1640s, a legal word, "held through the favor of another," from Latin precarius "depending on favor, pertaining to entreaty, obtained by asking or praying," from prex (genitive precis) "entreaty, prayer" (from PIE root *prek- "to ask, entreat").
The notion of "dependent on the will of another" led to the extended sense "risky, dangerous, hazardous, uncertain" (1680s), but this was objected to. "No word is more unskillfully used than this with its derivatives. It is used for uncertain in all its senses; but it only means uncertain, as dependent on others ..." [Johnson].
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【類語】
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【使い方／用例】
More and more Americans live precarious economic lives, and are utterly unprepared for an emergency that suddenly increases their expenses or reduces their income.
We didn't know that war was coming, but we knew that there was a dangerous situation in Europe, the situation was precarious, and so we had started to think about what we would do with the Gallery's collection should war come.
And this seems to leave us with a rather precarious solution, to the problem of protecting vulnerable populations from mass atrocity.
How precarious do you think free speech is right now in China mainland but also Hong Kong specifically?
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