parlous

英 [ˈpɑːləs]

美 [ˈpɑːrləs]

adj.  恶劣的; 动荡的; 危险的

GRE

BNC.33017 / COCA.38676

牛津词典

adj.

• 恶劣的；动荡的；危险的
  very bad and very uncertain; dangerous

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 恶劣的；危险的
  If something is in aparlousstate, it is in a bad or dangerous condition.
  1. ...the parlous state of our economy.
     我们经济的严峻形势

英英释义

adj

• fraught with danger
  1. dangerous waters
  2. a parlous journey on stormy seas
  3. a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat
  4. the precarious life of an undersea diver
  5. dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery
  Synonym:perilousprecarioustouch-and-go

双语例句

• The incident graphically illustrates how parlous their position is
  这一事件生动地证明了他们目前的地位多么岌岌可危。
• 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.
  危险海域；在风大浪急的海面的危险旅程；用一艘小船穿越大西洋的航行是很危险的；一名海下潜水员的危险生活；危险的手术后是简略的恢复。
• Despite the parlous state of the roads, which are littered with the debris of head-on collisions, he does not grumble much.
  尽管路况十分危险，常常会有车辆迎头相撞留下的残骸，他却并没有什么抱怨。
• In other words, I am in a parlous state, I am getting old, and there's nothing to be done about it.
  换句话说，我正处于危险的状态，正在变老，并且无法挽回。
• The parlous state of China's health-care system has also given a powerful boost to religion.
  危险的中国医疗体系也加速宗教力量的发展。
• But things are not as parlous as they sound.
  不过事情其实并没有听上去那么危险。
• With the aid of the parton-evolution mechanism, the equations determining the longitudinal momentum distributions of parlous in the quasi-free nucleon are presented;
  借助部分子演化机制，给出了确定准自由核子内部分子纵向动量分布的方程组；
• In spite of the parlous state of the US financial system and the political questions new overseas investments might raise, US banks remain keen to expand their operations in China.
  尽管美国金融体系陷于危险境地，并且新海外投资可能会带来政治问题，但美国的银行还是渴望在中国扩展业务。
• Given the parlous state of the European car market, this would not seem a sensible moment to launch a new car brand.
  鉴于欧洲汽车市场的糟糕现状，当前或许并不是推出一个新汽车品牌的合适时点。
• The alternative might be to cede control to the UAW, the second-biggest shareholder, which is hardly blameless for GM's current parlous state.
  可供选择的余地也许把权利让与第二大股东&汽车联合工会，对当前通用公司的危急状况，工会几乎不受指责。