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peril

/per-uhl/US // ˈpɛr əl //UK // (ˈpɛrɪl) //

险情,险境,危险,危难

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
    • : something that causes or may cause injury, loss, or destruction.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    per·iled, per·il·ing or per·illed, per·il·ling.

    • : to expose to danger; imperil; risk.

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Examples

  • Day cares have long operated on slim margins, and the pandemic has thrown them into financial peril.

  • Naked ambitionAll this week I’ll be writing about “Purity” and Audrey Munson, a forgotten figure in the history of American film and a tragic example of the perils of celebrity.

  • Every several recipes, Martin breaks to detail life on the water — and highlight the peril Louisiana’s coastline faces.

  • Followers of late artists have in turn helped bring to light the perils of the music industry, in hopes of promoting change.

  • At least 46 million jobs supported by air transport are in peril.

  • We separate the search for justice from the search for truth at our peril.

  • Facts have weight and mass, and we ignore them or abuse them at our own peril.

  • I was lost, fresh back from Vietnam, searching, maybe, for a peril the equivalent of war but aimed in the direction of life.

  • Now poaching is on the rise and wildlife conservation in peril.

  • Rick must shepherd his newborn daughter, Judith, through this world of peril.

  • I must aspire to the agitating transports of self-devotion, in scenes of sacrifice and peril!

  • They tobogganed down hills without a brake at the imminent peril of their lives.

  • That caused me certain fevers, for as he died in the country outside this city in a garden his property was in great peril.

  • Lyn was no chicken-hearted weakling, to sit down and weep unavailingly in time of peril.

  • Madame Roland distinctly saw and deeply felt the peril to which she and her friends were exposed.