| 词汇 | peril |
| 释义 | peril noun[ C or U ] formaluk /ˈper.əl/ us /ˈper.əl/ great danger, or something that is very dangerous: 巨大的危险;险情，险境 I never felt that my life was in peril.我从未意识到我的生命受到了严重的威胁。 The journey through the mountains was fraught with peril (= full of dangers).穿越山岭的旅途充满了危险。 Teenagers must be warned about the perils of unsafe sex.必须告诫青少年不安全性行为存在重大危险。 do something at your peril to do something that might be very dangerous for you: 自冒风险做… We underestimate the destructiveness of war at our peril.我们低估了战争的破坏性，这对我们是很危险的。 Dangers and threats balefully baneful banefully black spot hang hang over something hazard hazardous hazardously non-lethal on/under pain of deathidiom or elseidiom parlous parlously someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom tombstoning treacherously triple threat ultra-hazardous venturesome peril | American Dictionaryperil noun[ C/U ] fmlus/ˈper·əl/ danger, or something that is dangerous: [ U ]The president said that we are entering a time of great peril. peril | Business Englishperil noun[ C ] uk /ˈperəl/us INSURANCE the cause of an injury, the reason something has been damaged, etc.: The main perils covered are fire, lightning, explosion, and earthquake. Examples of perilperil And he was not alone in recognizing the perils of attempting it. Accordingly, the so-called ' red peril ' was exaggerated to the utmost. He refers to institutions imposing 'sanctions' and 'penalties' and refers to 'standards of conformity from which an individual may depart only at his peril'. In consequence, the souls of the manufacturing population were in a state of peril. They also know that they police these spaces at their peril. One peril of doing comparisons in only one policy field is that different welfare programmes are sometimes functional equivalents. In the end, we accept at our peril a too-simple distinction between the permanence of print versus the instability of handwriting. Patterns and perils of guessing in second language reading. Such labelling is unfortunate, as it tends to isolate broader arguments which historians ignore at their peril. It may well be that the perils of present-minded history, in this instance driven by the commendable aspiration to combat fearsome tendencies, compromise conceptual rigor. However, it certainly made me wonder whether we ignore the importance of secondary gain in our patients to our peril. The recent discoveries of medical science show that a thousand perils, unsuspected a generation ago, swarm in the atmosphere of a busy street. But even if ecology were being 'undermined', that would be a trivial cost compared with the benefit of awakening humanity to its peril. Genethics mining whether a particular peril must be disclosed is its materiality to the patient's decision: all risks potentially affecting the decision must be unmasked. The benefits of microhistory are well-known, as are its perils. See all examples of peril 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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