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

• But this year, thanks to both the parlous state of government finances and renewed attempts to make universities compete among themselves for students, the landscape is significantly different.
  但在今年，由于政府财政不容乐观，政府再次尝试促使高校间为生源展开竞争，如今情况完全不同于以往了。
• 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；
• 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。
• If it were ever to default, the result would be disaster for virtually all other governments, many of which are in a more parlous fiscal state than the US in any case.
  倘若它决定违约，其结果对其它所有政府几乎都是灾难性的许多政府的财政状况都比美国更危险。
• 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。
• 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 the world economy could mean more shipping companies following Eastwind Maritime, which went bankrupt in June.
  在危机四伏的世界经济环境中，更多的船运公司有可能步美国东风海事公司的后尘，后者已在今年六月份破产。
• What is even more difficult to understand is why the IMF is now also proposing that Greece should apply more of the same policy prescriptions that have brought its economy to its current parlous state.
  更加难以理解的是，imf为何现在还在提议，希腊应更多地采用令该国经济陷入目前危险境地的那些政策处方。
• 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。
• 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。