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    A plight is a difficult, unfortunate situation someone is stuck in, one that makes other people feel sympathy — "the plight of refugees" describes their hard, painful situation. It's a serious word, almost always used for real suffering, not small .

    困境；苦難處境

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成Possibly from an old French word meaning "a fold" or "condition" — the connection isn't fully certain.

原始詞典資料13 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。

plightnoun詞源 1/plaɪt/

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    A dire or unfortunate situation.

    • Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
    • Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.
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    archaicA (neutral) condition or state.

    • although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…].
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    obsoleteGood health.

    • All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].

plightnoun詞源 2/plaɪt/

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    dialectalResponsibility for ensuing consequences; risk; danger; peril.

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    dialectalAn instance of danger or peril; a dangerous moment or situation.

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    dialectalBlame; culpability; fault; wrong-doing; sin; crime.

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    dialectalOne's office; duty; charge.

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    archaicThat which is exposed to risk; that which is plighted or pledged; security; a gage; a pledge.

    • Haply, when I shall wed, That lord whose hand must take my plight shall carry Half my love with him, half my care and duty

plightverb詞源 2/plaɪt/

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    archaicTo nominate an object of value as a security against a promise; to pledge something, as one's faith, trust, allegiance, or something symbolic of this.

    • "Travel shall I and woo; Plight me shall I a flower; Try shall I my sword so good, To my weal or my woe in the stour."
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    Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.

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    To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.

    • I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.

plightverb詞源 3/plaɪt/

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    obsoleteTo weave; to braid; to fold; to plait.

    • ſhe wore a plighted Garmend of divers colours,

plightnoun詞源 4/plaɪt/

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    obsoleteA network; a plait; a fold; rarely a garment.

    • Many a folded plight.

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。