worst-case scenario
The most likely scenario is that house prices rise again, forcing interest rates up.
The worst scenario is that we lose two or three thousand pounds.
There are several possible scenarios.有几种可能出现的局面。
Imagine the scenario - David turns up and we're all there, waiting for him.
A doomsday scenario is not out of the question.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Predicting things and intuition
augur
augury
bellwether
betcha
bode
herald
horizon scanning
hunch
inkling
instinct
prefigure
premonition
premonitory
presage
prescience
telepathy
there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom
unforeseeable
unintuitively
unreasoning

scenarionoun[C] (PLAN)

a written plan of the characters and events in a play or film剧本提纲;剧情梗概;电影脚本

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accounts and stories
anecdote
another
anti-narrative
backstory
be another storyidiom
bodice-ripper
cautionary tale
horror story
in medias res
kompromat
legend
legendary
lore
reminiscence
rundown
running commentaryphrase
semi-legendary
shaggy-dog story
strand
write something up

scenario | American Dictionary

scenario
noun[ C ]
us/səˈneər·iˌoʊ, -ˈnɑr-/pluralscenarios
a description of possible events, or a description of the story of a movie, play, or other performance
The worst-case scenario is the worst situation that can be imagined:
In the worst-case scenario, the whole coast would be under water.

scenario | Business English

scenario
noun[ C ]
uk /sɪˈnɑːriəʊ/us
one of several possible situations that could exist in the future:
The company had planned for every possible scenario.
The most likely scenario is that an investment firm buys the building.
The worst case scenario is that nothing improves.

Examples of scenario

scenario
Elasticities obtained vary from 0.6, 0.7 to 1.5 or even 1.7 in two scenarios.
However, we argue that scenarios conceptually equivalent to the muddy children puzzle can occur in robotics.
Over a range of vaccination scenarios the model informs as to the effectiveness of various levels of vaccination coverage on prison reception.
Table 5 shows these scenarios in a 2r2 table.
In each version, the order of the scenarios was held constant, but the order of the conditions was counterbalanced.
In political science, the task is more difficult, and requires either comparative analysis or the careful use of counterfactual scenarios.
In both scenarios, almost half of the redistribution away from the top quintile went to the third and fourth quintiles.
Both scenarios do not bode well for his academic future.
Two alternative scenarios were simulated aiming at improved energy self-reliance in the organic cash crop farms.
As some of the scenarios are based on very few cases from the database, generalizability of the results is also limited.
Both these scenarios elicit staff responses which in themselves influence the patient's reactance and involvement in rehabilitation.
There are two possible scenarios in which they are not both true.
Participants rated pairs of test scenarios that varied on characteristics such as test sensitivity and painfulness.
Statistical scenarios forecast a moderate increase in life expectancy and decrease in mortality.
An advantage of modeling is the low cost of simulating treatment program costs and consequences for chronic diseases in selected scenarios using available short-run data.
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