peril
英 ['perɪl; -r(ə)l]美['pɛrəl]
- n. 危险;冒险
- vt. 危及;置…于险境
词态变化
复数: perils;第三人称单数: perils;过去式: periled; perilled;过去分词: periled; perilled;现在分词: periling; perilling;
助记提示
1. experience, experiment => peril.
中文词源
peril 危险,险情
来自PIE*per,向前,前进,词源同ford,forth.引申词义探索,开拓,风险,危险。比较其同源词expert,experience.
英文词源
- peril
- peril: [13] Etymologically, peril means a ‘trying out of something’, an ‘experiment’. The word comes via Old French peril from Latin perīculum ‘experiment, danger’, a noun formed from the base *per- ‘attempt’ (which also lies behind English empiric, experience, expert, pirate, and repertory). Its derivative perīculōsus originally reached English via Old French as perilous [13], but subsequently became contracted to parlous [14].
=> empiric, experience, expert, parlous, pirate, repertory - peril (n.)
- c. 1200, from Old French peril "danger, risk" (10c.), from Latin periculum "an attempt, trial, experiment; risk, danger," with instrumentive suffix -culum and first element from PIE *peri-tlo-, suffixed form of root *per- (3) "to lead, pass over" (cognates: Latin experiri "to try;" Greek peria "trial, attempt, experience," empeiros "experienced;" Old Irish aire "vigilance;" Gothic ferja "watcher;" Old English fær "danger, calamity"); related to *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).
双语例句
- 1. Anyone who breaks the law does so at their peril.
- 违法者要自担后果。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The British never awaken to peril until it is almost too late.
- 英国人从来不懂得防患于未然。
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- 3. In spite of great peril, I have survived.
- 虽然处境非常危险,我还是挺过来了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Ignore it at your peril.
- 无视该问题要自担风险。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The country's economy is now in grave peril.
- 现在,这个国家的经济陷入了严重危机。
来自《权威词典》