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perilously

/per-uh-luhs/US // ˈpɛr ə ləs //UK // (ˈpɛrɪləs) //

岌岌可危,险些,险象环生,岌岌可危地

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.

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Examples

  • That’s perilous, because into every life fall challenges that require actual wisdom and hard-won insight.

  • Now, over 10,000 years later, fossilized footprints reveal that possibly perilous journey.

  • Almost overnight, Singapore’s perilous food supply became one of the most visible consequences of an otherwise invisible crisis.

  • Later analysis showed the president’s condition was far more serious than the public — or even Lincoln — knew, and it hit at a time far more perilous for America than now.

  • It sits in a shipping channel known as the Seymour Narrows, which has infamously perilous tidal currents.

  • How many Benny Hill scenes involved the creepy, portly man zooming about perilously near an unfathomably stacked woman?

  • Miraculously, no one died that day, though Deborah Cotton came perilously close.

  • We think not - especially as William reportedly bowled a 'wild full toss' ball which went perilously close to the royal head.

  • In the abstract, these harsh truths steer the soul perilously close to selfishness or, worse, Objectivism.

  • It is an everyplace, thoroughly Irish but perilously vulnerable to changes in the prevailing global winds.

  • He came perilously near to saying impetuously a hundred things he had determined that he must not say.

  • "The man knew his place, but you came perilously near making a fool of yourself this morning, my dear," she said.

  • During these three months there were moments when he felt himself perilously close to the borders of his sanity.

  • Opportunities were narrowing down rapidly—the canoe was perilously close, and so many of his bullets went astray.

  • The pinkey came up perilously close; then, just barely in time, sheered off so that its boom almost came aboard the Viking.