a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation 尴尬的处境,困境;危境 the club's financial predicament. 俱乐部的财政困境。
(Philosophy, archaic)(in Aristotelian logic) each of the ten ‘categories’, often listed as: substance or being, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, posture, having or possession, action, and passion (哲 古)范畴(亚里士多德逻辑论十大范畴之一,常列举为: 本体或存在、数量、性、关系、地点、时间、姿势、状态、活动和遭变)
语源
late Middle English (in sense 2): from late Latin praedicamentum 'something predicated' (rendering Greek katēgoria 'category'), from Latin praedicare (see predicate). From the sense 'category' arose the sense 'state of being, condition'; hence 'unpleasant situation'