plight是什么意思？

plight

英[plaɪt] 美[plaɪt]

• n. 境况，困境，誓约；
• vt. 保证，约定；

复数：plights;

第三人称单数：plights;

过去式：plighted;

过去分词：plighted;

现在分词：plighting;

例句

• Alexander is in a miserable plight. 亚历山大陷入了可怜的困境。
• The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions... 该国的经济困境阻碍了其科研机构的工作进展。
• He looked first mollified and then relieved as it occurred to him his plight could be worse. 想到自己本可能会陷入更糟糕的困境，他看上去先是感到宽慰，随后又如释重负。
• The plight of many elderly Chinese subsisting on low fixed pension is well known. 许多老人只靠固定的较低的退休金生活,境遇可想而知.
• The plight of the refugees arouses our compassion. 难民的困苦引起我们的同情.
• He displayed a willful ignorance of their plight. 对于他们的困境他故意装作一无所知.
• After plunging into a sorry plight, the pollster quit poking about and plotted a conspiracy. 在陷入困境后, 那个民意调查者停止了游手好闲并策划了一起阴谋.
• They flew to Europe to publicize the plight of the refugees. 他们飞往欧洲报道难民的惨状。
• His friend's plight had spurred him into taking part. 朋友的困境促使他投身参与。
• Last year Collins wrote a moving ballad which highlighted the plight of the homeless. 去年，柯林斯写了一首动人的抒情歌曲，突出描绘了无家可归者的苦境。

词组

• plight one's troth
  见 troth
• plight (one's) troth
  To become engaged to marry. 订婚 To give one's solemn oath. 庄严地发誓：给某人庄严的誓约

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  困境；苦境
  If you refer to someone's plight, you mean that they are in a difficult or distressing situation that is full of problems.
  例句
  ...the worsening plight of Third World countries plagued by debts. 受债务困扰的第三世界国家日益加深的苦境

英汉词典释义

• n.
  境况, 困境,苦难,苦境
  Alexander is in a miserable plight. 亚历山大陷入了可怜的困境。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one;
  "finds himself in a most awkward predicament""the woeful plight of homeless people"
  2. a solemn pledge of fidelity
• Verb
  1. give to in marriage
  2. promise solemnly and formally;
  "I pledge that will honor my wife"