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    /daɪˈlemə/ · /dəˈlemə/

    A situation in which it is very hard to decide what to do, because the choices you have seem equally good, or equally bad. Whatever you pick, you have to give up something that matters.

    兩難；進退兩難

    複數 dilemmas

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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核心畫面

Picture standing where the road splits in two, with no third path and no way to stay put. Both roads look about equally good — or about equally bad — so whichever one you take, you lose whatever the other one held. The hard part is not that you can't see the options; it's that seeing them clearly doesn't help you choose.

你站在一個岔路口，路只有兩條，而且不能站著不動。兩條看起來一樣好，或者一樣糟——選了這條，另一條上的東西就永遠拿不到…更多收起你站在一個岔路口，路只有兩條，而且不能站著不動。兩條看起來一樣好，或者一樣糟——選了這條，另一條上的東西就永遠拿不到了。難的地方不是看不清楚選項，而是看得很清楚也還是選不下去：不管往哪走，都要親手放掉一些自己在乎的東西。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

dilemmanoun/daɪˈlɛmə/

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    A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.

    • A strong dilemma in a desperate case! / To act with infamy, or quit the place.
  • 2

    Any difficult circumstance or problem.

  • 3

    human-scienceslogicmathematicsA type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".

  • 4

    Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。