precarious
adj. 危險的; 不確定的; 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.
我們的財務狀況已變得不穩定了。
...the Government's precarious position.
政府的危險處境
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.
他們順著搖搖晃晃的梯子往上爬,看起來非常滑稽。
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.
他乘人之危進行偷盜,真是太可恥了.
They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps.
他們靠在垃圾場撿垃圾維持著朝不保夕的生活.
But that sense of increasing physical security remains precarious, and psychological security is something else.
但是這種正在增強的物理安全仍是搖搖欲墜的, 而心理安全則是另一碼事.
A soldier leads a very precarious life.
軍人過著非常危險的生活.
To abolish casualisation, temporary and precarious work.
撤銷散工、臨時工及不固定的工作.