名詞 predicament:

1. a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one
   同義詞：quandary, plight

1. A difficult or embarrassing situation; a predicament.
   困境，窘境很困難的或發(fā)窘的局面; 難題
2. If you had no enemy, you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friend.
   假使你全無仇敵，那么在朋友方面就易陷于同樣的貧乏了。
3. A loan of money would help me out of my predicament.
   只需一筆貸款就能幫我擺脫困境。
4. Your refusal puts me in an awkward predicament.
   你的拒絕讓我感到十分為難。

pre.dic.a.ment

n.（名詞）
A situation, especially an unpleasant, troublesome, or trying one, from which extrication is difficult.See Usage Note at dilemma
困境，苦處：令人不快、麻煩或艱難并難以擺脫的境況參見 dilemma
Logic One of the basic states or classifications described by Aristotle into which all things can be placed; a category.
【邏輯學(xué)】 范疇：亞里士多德所描繪的可以放置所有事物的基本狀態(tài)或分類之一；范疇

來源：
Middle English [class, category]
中古英語 [類別，范疇]
from Old French
源自 古法語
from Late Latin praedic3mentum translation of Greek katôgoria
源自 后期拉丁語 praedic3mentum 希臘語 katôgoria的翻譯
from Latin praedic3re [to proclaim publicly, predicate] * see preach
源自 拉丁語 praedic3re [公開宣稱，斷言] *參見 preach

【引伸】
predic.amen.tal
predic.amen.tally
adv.（副詞）
<參考詞匯><同義詞>predicament,plight,quandary,jam,fix,pickleThese nouns all refer to a situation from which it is difficult to free oneself.Apredicament is a problematic situation about which one does not know what to do:
這些名詞都表示難以擺脫的狀況。Predicament 是指一種不知該怎么辦的疑難處境：
例句：
.Werner finds himself suddenly in a most awkward predicament. (Thomas Carlyle).Aplight is a bad or unfortunate situation:
.華納突然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己處于一種最為尷尬的境地. （托馬斯·卡萊爾）。Plight 是指糟糕或不幸的處境：

例句：
The reporter wrote an article about the woeful plight of homeless people. Aquandary is a state of uncertainty or perplexity, especially about what course of action to take:
這位記者寫了一篇文章報道無家可歸者的不幸處境。 Quandary 是不確定和困惑的狀態(tài)， 尤指對將采取的何種行動：

例句：
.Having captured our men, we were in a quandary how to keep them. (Theodore Roosevelt).
.抓到了我們的人之后，我們卻苦于不知該如何看住他們. （西奧多·羅斯福）。

Jam andfix both refer to trying predicaments from which disengagement presents a problem:
Jam 和fix 都是指從其脫離會產(chǎn)生問題的難受處境：
例句：
The boys who broke the window are in a jam with the school authorities.
打破窗子的男孩與校方陷入了僵局。

例句：
.If we get left on this wreck we are in a fix. (Mark Twain).Apickle is a disagreeable, embarrassing, or troublesome predicament:
.要是被留在失事船上，我們便會陷入進退兩難的困境. （馬克·吐溫）。Pickle 是指討厭、尷尬或麻煩的困境：

例句：
.I could see no way out of the pickle I was in. (Robert Louis Stevenson).
.我看不到任何使我脫離困境的辦法. （羅伯特·路易斯·斯蒂文森）