| 词汇 | imminent-peril |
| 释义 | imminent peril noun[ U ] ukus INSURANCE, LAW a situation in which something very bad is likely to happen, for example that you might be so badly hurt that you are unlikely to survive: Under California law, a person may use deadly force in self-defense if they believe they are in imminent peril of death or serious injury. Examples of imminent perilimminent peril Voluntarily and at his own imminentperil went into the enemy's lines at night and, under a sharp fire, rescued a wounded comrade. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The duress must involve the threat of imminentperil of death or serious injury, operating on the defendant's mind and overbearing his will. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the face of the imminentperil confronting his homeland, he was filled with fury and grief. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. In the absence of imminentperil, the actions of a rescuer may be perceived by the courts to be reckless and not worthy of protection. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. With no food and no gas to melt the snow into water, the team members were in imminentperil. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The court held that the defence was available as long as the crime was a reasonable and proportionate response to an imminentperil of death or serious injury. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. For without such recovery we should have been today in imminentperil of bankruptcy, if not of starvation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But can anybody really believe that suddenly, at this last moment, these traders have become in imminentperil. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some travellers have described the imminentperil they encountered in attempting to explore these forbidden haunts. From Project Gutenberg So far as it was accompanied by warnings, these were evidently general rather than elicited by any definite and imminentperil to the churches. From Project Gutenberg 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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