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jeopardy

/jep-er-dee/US // ˈdʒɛp ər di //UK // (ˈdʒɛpədɪ) //

危害,危害性,危险,危急时刻

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural jeop·ard·ies.

    • : hazard or risk of or exposure to loss, harm, death, or injury: For a moment his life was in jeopardy.
    • : peril or danger: The spy was in constant jeopardy of being discovered.
    • : Law. the danger or hazard of being found guilty, and of consequent punishment, undergone by criminal defendants on trial.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, fears persist with Ginsburg gone that LGBTQ victories previously won at the Supreme Court will be in jeopardy.

  • Newark Beth Israel’s one-year survival rate for heart transplants had dipped, and if Young were to die too soon, the program’s standing and even its own survival might be in jeopardy.

  • She’d had a hard year, charged by troopers with damaging a vehicle in a case that was later dismissed but that had placed her law enforcement career in jeopardy.

  • The Public Advocates Office suspects if SDG&E doesn’t submit justification, it could put approval of its safety certificate in jeopardy.

  • Dominguez-Bello’s research collections have been in jeopardy many times, from political unrest when her lab was based in Venezuela to Hurricane Sandy after she’d moved her lab to New York University.

  • On Friday, she sacked Roger Goodell, basically asking: “Hey Commissioner, ever hear of double-jeopardy?”

  • I wish there were nothing for me to do but to take my Jeopardy!

  • Even if you count the time I spent prepping for my original Jeopardy!

  • In the semifinals, she was in a peculiar position for someone of Jeopardy!

  • They banter with Alex Trebek and tell stories of life after Jeopardy!

  • I am not fool enough to put my precious Naps in jeopardy, just when I am so deucedly in want of them, too.

  • How fervent their prayers for their companions in tribulation, when they themselves stood in jeopardy every hour!

  • In the former case man's most valued possession, his life, is in jeopardy, and his utmost powers are exerted for its preservation.

  • Um longed to return for her straw sandals, but this freedom of the night was already far too precious for jeopardy.

  • To try and compel them to pay was tantamount to placing liberty and even life in jeopardy.