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 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。
• Through analyzing the hadron current tensor for the deep inelastic scattering of leptons from the quasi-free nucleon, we obtained the ralation of transverse momenta of parlous to their longitudinal momentum distributions in the quasi-free nucleon.
  通过对轻子在准自由核子上深度非弹性散射的强子张量进行分析，建立了准自由核子内部分子横向动量与相应部分子纵向动量分布间的关系；
• 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。
• For Pakistan, a country with parlous public finances already forced to hold back on a planned purchase of three German submarines, China offers a cheaper option and long-term credit.
  因公共财政困境，巴基斯坦此前被迫终止购买三艘德国潜艇。中国为其提供了更廉价的选择和长期信贷。
• 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。
• There have five rooms two parlous and two toilets.
  在那里有五个房间二危险的和二厕所。
• In the 1970s, DFI developed in the parlous state of financial relations, which is considered as a vital tool to avoid risks, with the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System, the suddenly-erupted worldwide oil crisis, and the violently fluctuated interest rates and exchange rate.
  20世纪70年代，在布雷顿森林体系解体、世界性石油危机爆发、利率和汇率剧烈波动的异常经济环境下，衍生金融工具作为规避风险的重要工具逐渐发展起来。
• It is politically impossible for rich country governments to write cheques for any significant amount of money with their finances in as parlous a state as they are today especially in the US, which has turned its back on a global climate agreement before.
  在富国财政处于当今这种拮据状态的情况下，要这些国家的政府开出金额可观的支票，在政治上是不可能的，尤其是在以前曾经拒绝接受全球气候协定的美国。
• 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 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。