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词汇 dilemma
释义 dilemma
noun[ C ]
uk /daɪˈlem.ə//dɪˈlem.ə/ us /daɪˈlem.ə//dɪˈlem.ə/
B2
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do: 左右为难,两难境地
face a dilemmaShe faces the dilemma of disobeying her father or losing the man she loves.她面临着要么违抗父亲要么失去心上人的两难境地。
in a dilemmaShe's in a dilemma because she feels she would lose out if she tried to transfer her pension fund elsewhere.
dilemma overThe president is clearly in a dilemma over how to tackle the crisis.
dilemma aboutThere's a real dilemma about how to respond.
moral dilemma Secrets often present a moral dilemma for adolescents.
ethical dilemma True ethical dilemmas are complex and have no easy answers.
Synonym
quandary
We are faced with an agonizing dilemma and it seems there is no correct choice.
Now he has been offered the other job, which puts him in a bit of a dilemma.
Should he aim for approval from his parliamentary colleagues or follow the wishes of the wider public? It was a dilemma.
I found myself in a dilemma and really didn't know what to do for the best.
To my father, the situation was simple and he couldn't understand my dilemma.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
abyss
adversity
at your worstidiom
Augean
bad hair day
epidemic
hardness
have a bumpy rideidiom
have someone over a barrelidiom
pall
purgatory
push factor
quagmire
quicksand
rabbit hole
scrape
strait
the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom

dilemma | American Dictionary


dilemma
noun[ C ]
us/dɪˈlem·ə, dɑɪ-/
a situation in which a choice has to be made between possibilities that will all have results you do not want:
The dilemma was over how to protect a charming little island and at the same time allow economic development on it.

Examples of dilemma


dilemma
I took a photograph of it and suggest that it may also be considered emblematic of the dilemma of architectural practice.
The experience presented and discussed here epitomises both the dilemma and the experiences of the new generation of creative writers.
The focus will be on part (2) of the dilemma for the remainder of the article.
Believing in these worlds resolves moral dilemmas that undermine social cooperation.
How, if at all, are the dilemmas of that society resolved, as evidenced by the text?
The dilemma is how to justify bidding for foreign funds when donors think that the present government should take this responsibility.
Another lingering dilemma is how to understand the use of electronic aids in independent reading.
Within this climate, the inherent tension for voluntary and/or non-statutory drug agencies involved in policy making has clearly created ethical dilemmas.
For the theoretically ambitious, there is no easy way around the across-unit/within-unit dilemma.
In addition, the authors deliver a quick overlook of dilemmas concerning legalisation and application of euthanasia.
We then avoid the dilemma of trying to replicate the resolution of tonal melodic and harmonic forces.
This dilemma wasn't merely a result of restrictions involving volume.
Only anthropomorphism can admit the second term of the dilemma and therefore, from sheer necessity, we must keep to the first.
There is an absence of understanding about theories of consciousness that would aid this growing dilemma.
The conspicuous failure of orthodox game theory is its inability to account for cooperative behavior in noniterated social dilemmas.
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Collocations withdilemma


dilemma

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classic dilemma
On the contrary, she expressed very well the classicdilemma of the problem of income redistribution.
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difficult dilemma
The fact is that they have been placed in a difficultdilemma.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
ethical dilemma
They asked participants to relate a recent ethicaldilemma they had encountered in their medical practice.
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