| 词汇 | example_english_plight |
| 释义 | Examples of plightThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. We have heard more about our honour being plighted to-day than we have heard for months. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Increases of that magnitude will have shattered even the most careful of household budgets and will have plunged thousands of families into the most desperate of financial plights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Their plights vary from fair to dreadful. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then a doctor who served the same village described the plights of the people, on how they fought and ended this. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. However, his plights were ignored and the governor's ruling was upheld. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Serfs could also escape their plights if they survived twenty-five years of service in the armed forces. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Their individual plights are intertwined throughout the book. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The plight and sufferings of local forced laborers were not a feature in these accounts. She does not question the intentions of media experts, who created a story out of the plight of isolated elders. Instead, they were developed through strong local leadership whose focus of attention was the plight of youth in this one urban neighbourhood. Arguments for restricting inheritance are usually driven by a concern for the plight of those who happen to be born in a poor family. Most people also see mutual obligation as implying action on the part of government to reduce unemployment and ease the plight of the unemployed. The plight of children in armed conflict, and in particular child soldiers, has led to the adoption of international instruments to protect children. The plight and alienation of this group is the most important neglected factor in the analysis of the urban protests of 1961-63. Overall, this is a spine-chilling account of the plight of elderly people trapped in a health and social system where they have no voice. In many cases, doctors have also taken their cases to the public through newspaper features that describe and photographically depict their plight. Often, the plights, predicaments, and hardships that the three families encounter are of a juicy, scandalous, and controversial nature. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Each of the three families experience similarly overwhelming hardships and plights. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Western media had become more interested in tales of slavery than in the plight of the refugees. Text repetitions give scope to her sorrow and permit her to defer acceptance of her plight. The plight of endangered languages is considered by many to be a crisis. Over the past decade, an increasing number of linguists have been turning their attention toward the plight of endangered languages. Even some of the reformers were sympathetic to his plight. Although the authors are sympathetic to the plight of the workers and unions, their arguments are balanced and based upon careful and exhaustive fieldwork. In short, there was nothing inevitable about his plight. Note that it was the patient rather than the therapists who molded his plight and deliverance in the cast of culturally congruent metaphors. They come to feel concern for her and, consequently, to desire relief from her plight for her sake. The piano joins a percussion section of rattles and gongs that dominates the ritual, whilst a mournful cello portrays the plight of the horse. The plight of owner occupiers in slum clearance set up resonances in the wider electorate, and interacted variably with the attitudes of councils. She is easily moved to tears by the plights of nature caused by noncaring humans. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Many were resigned to the fact that no-one was really interested in their plight and that farmers were generally dismissed as ' whingers and complainers'. The cost of feeding his tenants under the new legislation, as well as sympathy for their plight, probably influenced him as well. The price of low unemployment and low inflation is increased dispersion of wages, but increased training may help ease the plight of less-skilled workers. The evolution of the educational complex illustrates this plight. The plight of relatively poor households is another reason to be concerned about increasing scarcity of fuelwood. Again the intent was to emphasise the plight of the weavers. His response is to educate, first his students, then his readers, to the unjust plight of women. The public reaction and critical press coverage emphasized the insensitivity of the decision to the child's plight, not the lack of evidence that the procedure would improve survival (21). All appear implicitly sympathetic to the plight of the excluded, in that the umbrella term social exclusion carries the sense of victims who have been acted upon to their detriment. The villagers, who were apparently familiar with urban forms of protest, pursued the more restrained course of petitioning the administrator in person and arousing public sympathy for their plight. Clothing and textile exporters pushed the government to alleviate their plight, and industrialists as a whole sought freer access to both imported inputs and export markets. She is openly sympathetic to their plight. The representation of the bath as a philanthropic venture to ease the plight of the poor can also be read partially as an anxiety to control the lower classes. Re-ecting the idealism of the era, he believed that historical perspectives on the formation and consequences of public policy could inform contemporary debate on the plight of the cities. The children are sensitized to their parents' plight and ill prepared for the "letting go" needed to accept the parent's death without feeling responsible or guilty. Works can be seen to operate on the spectator by eliciting sympathetic reactions to dramatic situations and thereby allowing the spectator to identify directly with the plight of the characters. To deepen the plight of poor farmers, elite farmers borrow their land (outright land sales are rare) and hire their sons to expand their own cash-crop fields. I shall discuss their plight further down. Whose words and bodies both watch but for a wind, whose feet are ever fleeting, whose faith plighted on the shore, is turned to perjury when they hoist sail. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In other words, personal identity of individuals is reducible to a bundle or web of constitutive parts in a way that mirrors the plight of associations. He made it clear that the government was not responsible for the city's sanitary plight and therefore did not intend to invest money or human resources in its improvement. The plight of chronic self-mutilators. I believe that the more the country understands the present financial plight of those people who are skilled, the better. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Business cannot carry on successfully under those conditions, and it is no wonder that we are in the plight that we are. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What can be done to help them in their plight? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bulk buying has prevented us getting abundant supplies of cotton which plight well have been procurable through private enterprise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shudder to think what the plight of the others must be. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here are one or two examples of the plight of our ancient cathedrals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any of us who know the plight of people on fixed incomes and living in retirement will know that there is still a real problem. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I make this point because it is so grossly unfair to talk as though we, and we alone, were in this plight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There are, of course, the widows, and we are all conscious of their plight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He believes that almost with a religious fervour, a bigoted fervour, which has blinded him to the real plight of people in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are all concerned with the plight of the under-developed areas of the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The coal mines are in the same plight; they are suffering severely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Unfortunately, what is lacking is a sense of urgency among those who have power to act to remedy the plight of one-parent families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Present plight of film production most serious yet and preservation of our cultural identity demands a strong home market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, it will greatly help to case the position of some and give us an opportunity to draw attention to the plight of others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We do not know whether our much-heralded oil will come on stream on time and whether it will rescue us from our plight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I find it very difficult to comprehend why there is this lack of urgency about the plight of the textile industry. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are now in a serious plight which requires speedy remedial action. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The public are shielded from the full knowledge of inflation—a knowledge which is essential if we are to escape from our plight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have already taken steps to ease the plight of one-parent families. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We shall continue to take suitable opportunities to raise their plight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He quite rightly underlined their plight, and it is particularly important that this debate should emphasise that aspect of disablement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She faces a desperate plight in trying to care for often robust young children with whom she cannot adopt the normal motherly tactics. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that is so, and if the war has already cost it another $0·5 billion, its financial plight is desperate. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The plight of street children is particularly tragic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it any wonder that people find themselves in such a desperate housing plight? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Both have the same priorities about peace and the plight of the people in the undeveloped countries, yet they come down on opposite sides. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They omit to state the obvious alternative, which is that without technology both halves would be in a similar plight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that this debate will do something to draw attention to the plight of savers of all kinds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, we cannot disguise the fact that lack of cash is the main cause of the plight of most people. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One only needs to see young people hanging around on street corners, with nothing to do and nowhere to go, to understand their plight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I was especially worried by the way in which the plight of young unemployed people was casually brushed to one side this afternoon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There were also those who always blamed others for their plights. He has plighted faith and troth for the performance of this. Her plight forces her to explore the meaning of justice. Initiating the quest means establishing a social contract: the three "plight" their "trouthes" to live and die for the others as if they were brothers. Out of compassion for their plight, the bodhisattva offered herself to them. On others, the plight of small businesses needs to be looked at from new angles. However, by 1648, that was not enough ; entries recorded not only the plight of the individuals but also who was recommending them for parish assistance. They are, thus, indifferent to the plight of resident doctors until matters are brought to a head. The story shows an understanding of the plight of the survivor. On the contrary, the soldiers whose task it was to guard them reportedly felt sorry for their plight and treated them with affection. The plight of many black communities since the 1970s proves the point. The qadi grew fabulously wealthy, even though the scenes in his courts must have constantly reminded him of the plight of the poor and victimized. Nuclear power remains for many nations a political no-go area with major concerns over safety, environment and costs- its plight seems similar to hydropower. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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