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标题[每日] quandary (n) 困境
时间Sun Oct 26 06:14:54 2008
Word of the Day (Saturday October 25, 2008)
quandary \KWAHN-duh-ree; -dree\, noun:
Pronunciation:
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A state of difficulty, perplexity, doubt, or uncertainty.
Don ... told me of the
quandary that the authorities were in.
Should the ruins be left untouched or should they be reconstructed
for a new wave of tourists?
-- Benjamin Hopkins, "How to avoid the tourists in Peru", Times
(London), May 6, 2000
The school commissioners ... were in a
quandary over the needful
size of an "open-air playground."
-- Jacob A. Riis, The Battle with the Slum
Once or twice as I stood waiting there for things to accomplish
themselves, I could not resist an impulse to laugh at my miserable
quandary.
-- H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau
Quandary is of unknown origin.
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