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quandary

/kwon-duh-ree, -dree/US // ˈkwɒn də ri, -dri //UK // (ˈkwɒndrɪ, -dərɪ) //

左右为难,纠结,窘境,两难

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural quan·da·ries.

    • : a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.

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Examples

  • Washington faces a similar quandary in Year 2 of its rebuild under Rivera.

  • Character, the UC Berkeley graduate, faced a similar quandary when Amazon offered her a job even before she had graduated from college.

  • True authenticity, however, requires showing the bad along with the good, and that presents a quandary.

  • Maybe put into perspective the way you’re looking at that sort of quandary.

  • With sympathies divided, the player is faced with a series of devastating moral quandaries.

  • The quandary of whether to freeze eggs or not could become irrelevant overnight.

  • A teary Osbourne said she now thought "WWJD—what would Joan do" when faced with a quandary.

  • James Gunn, the director Marvel handpicked to helm the sci-fi opera Guardians of the Galaxy, was facing a similar quandary.

  • People of privilege making an effort to be better people face a difficult quandary.

  • As I noted in November, this legislation presented a quandary for Christie.

  • In his quandary, he heard a step without and looking up saw Pete in the open door.

  • Here again he was in a quandary, for except for a word or two of ordinary use he could understand no Zulu.

  • "I was attacked about four miles up the road by a tremendous sixty-pound Quandary, and I was nearly killed," said the major.

  • What put Matt in a quandary, however, was the fact that he could not reconcile his present surroundings with the Crescent.

  • He did not mean to find himself in a quandary when they were ready to turn back again, and not be able to say where the camp lay.