precarious
adj. 危险的; 不确定的; 不安全的; 可疑的
If your situation is precarious, you are not in complete control of events and might fail in what you are doing at any moment.
Our financial situation had become precarious.
我们的财务状况已变得不稳定了。
...the Government's precarious position.
政府的危险处境
Something that is precarious is not securely held in place and seems likely to fall or collapse at any moment.
They looked rather comical as they crawled up precarious ladders.
他们顺着摇摇晃晃的梯子往上爬,看起来非常滑稽。
1. affording no ease or reassurance;
2. fraught with danger;
3. dangerously insecure;
4. not secure; beset with difficulties;
He took advantage of other's precarious position to steal. It's shameful.
他乘人之危进行偷盗,真是太可耻了.
They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps.
他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活.
But that sense of increasing physical security remains precarious, and psychological security is something else.
但是这种正在增强的物理安全仍是摇摇欲坠的, 而心理安全则是另一码事.
A soldier leads a very precarious life.
军人过着非常危险的生活.
To abolish casualisation, temporary and precarious work.
撤销散工、临时工及不固定的工作.