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Something precarious is not safe or steady — it could easily fall, fail, or go wrong at any moment. A precarious position on a ladder means you might slip. A precarious job means you could lose it any day. Precarious finances means the money situation could collapse if even one thing goes wrong. The feeling behind the word is: this is holding on, but only just.
不穩定的、岌岌可危的
組成From Latin 'precarius,' meaning something held only through another person's favor or prayer — originally about things you could lose at any moment because they were never really yours to keep.
原始詞典資料3 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。
precariousadj詞源 1/pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
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Dangerously insecure or unstable; perilous.
- One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
- Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious.
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lawDepending on the intention of another.
precariousadj詞源 2/pɹɪˈkɛəɹi.əs/
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dentistrymedicinesciencesRelating to incipient caries.
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。