单词
plight
英 [pla?t]
美[pla?t]
基本信息
- n. 困境；境况；誓约
- vt. 保证；约定
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词态变化
复数:?plights;
助记提示
1. 扑过去，把希望之光扑灭了.
2. 扑灭了光。
3. 扑灭了光亮就会一片黑暗，陷入困境。
2. 扑灭了光。
3. 扑灭了光亮就会一片黑暗，陷入困境。
中文词源
plight 誓言，誓约，订婚
来自古英语pliht,有风险的承诺，危险，风险，来自Proto-Germanic*pleg,承诺，责任，担保， 来自PIE*dlegh,忙于，从事于，责任，承诺，来自PIE*del,长的，词源同long,play,pledge.引 申词义誓言，誓约，特别是郑重的誓言，如订婚。
plight 苦难，困境来自古法语pleit,情况，来自拉丁语plicare,卷入，卷进，词源同ply,complex.后主要用于指坏 的情况，引申词义苦难，困境。词义部分受到上一词义的影响。
英文词源
- plight
- plight: see pleat
- plight (v.)
- "to pledge" (obsolete except in archaic plight one's troth), from Old English pligtan, plihtan "to endanger, imperil, compromise," verb form of pliht (n.) "danger, risk" (see plight (n.2)). Related: Plighted; plighting.
- plight (n.1)
- "condition or state (usually bad)," late 12c., "danger, harm, strife," from Anglo-French plit, pleit, Old French pleit, ploit "condition" (13c.), originally "way of folding," from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum, neuter past participle of Latin plicare "to fold, lay" (see ply (v.1)).
Originally in neutral sense (as in modern French en bon plit "in good condition"), sense of "harmful state" (and current spelling) probably is from convergence and confusion with plight (n.2) via notion of "entangling risk, pledge or promise with great risk to the pledger." - plight (n.2)
- "pledge," mid-13c., "pledge, promise," usually involving risk or loss in default, from Old English pliht "danger, risk, peril, damage," from Proto-Germanic *pleg- (cognates: Old Frisian plicht "danger, concern, care," Middle Dutch, Dutch plicht "obligation, duty," Old High German pfliht, German Pflicht "obligation, duty" (see plight (v.)). Compare Old English plihtere "look-out man at the prow of a ship," plihtlic "perilous, dangerous."
双语例句
- 1. The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions.
- 该国的经济困境阻碍了其科研机构的工作进展。
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- 2. He just wants to draw attention to the plight of the unemployed.
- 他仅仅是想引起人们对失业者困境的关注。
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- 3. They bore their plight with stoicism and fortitude.
- 他们以坚忍刚毅的精神直面困境。
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- 4. The plight of the Kurds gained global visibility.
- 库尔德人的苦难引起了全球关注。
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- 5. the plight of the homeless
- 无家可归者的艰难困苦
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