1. （局勢）不確定的，不穩定的，危險的 If your situation is precarious, you are not in complete control of events and might fail in what you are doing at any moment.
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e.g. Our financial situation had become precarious. 我們的財務(wù)狀況已變得不穩定了。 e.g. ...the Government's precarious position. 政府的危險處境
precariously The hunter-gatherer lifestyle today survives precariously in remote regions. 今天狩獵采集的生活方式在偏遠地區僥幸留存了下來(lái)。precariousness Wells was well aware of the precariousness of human life. 韋爾斯深知人類(lèi)生活的不穩定性。
2. 不穩固的；不牢靠的 Something that is precarious is not securely held in place and seems likely to fall or collapse at any moment.
e.g. They looked rather comical as they crawled up precarious ladders. 他們順著(zhù)搖搖晃晃的梯子往上爬，看起來(lái)非?；?。
precariously One of my grocery bags was still precariously perched on the car bumper. 我的一只食品雜貨物袋還搖搖欲墜地搭在汽車(chē)保險杠上。
precarious英英釋義
adj
1. affording no ease or reassurance
e.g. a precarious truce
Synonym: unstable
2. fraught with danger
e.g. dangerous waters a parlous journey on stormy seas a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat the precarious life of an undersea diver dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go recovery