precariously
adv. 不安全地; 危險地; 碰機會地; 不穩定地
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. in a precarious manner;
Car horns toot as cyclists dart precariously through the traffic.
騎車人危險地在車流中飛速穿行時,汽車喇叭的嘟嘟聲響成一片。
The hunter-gatherer lifestyle today survives precariously in remote regions.
今天狩獵採集的生活方式在偏遠地區僥倖留存了下來。
The hotel was perched precariously on a steep hillside.
旅館危險地坐落在陡峭的山坡上.
The phone was perched precariously on the window ledge.
電話放在窗臺上,搖搖欲墜.
He was ever a little beforehand and never lived precariously.
他的收入一向稍多於開支,而從未過拮据的生活.