| 单词 | perilous |
| 释义 | perilous (once / 550 pages) adj Something that is dangerous or very risky can be described with the adjective perilous. If you are driving in a blizzard, you may kick yourself for making such a perilous journey. The adjective perilous comes from the Latin word periculum, meaning dangerous. Words from the same root include peril, a noun meaning a dangerous situation, and imperil, a verb meaning to put in danger. The last thing you want to do as a parent is to imperil your children. Unfortunately, childhood is filled with peril — from climbing on the monkey bars to eating paste, dirt, or bugs. If you think you can prevent all perilous situations, you haven't been a parent very long! WORD FAMILYperilous: perilously, perilousness+/peril: periled, periling, perilled, perilling, perilous, perils USAGE EXAMPLESEven if we just miss it, the upward trend of global temperatures overall continues at a perilous rate. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) For the Nasser family, Mosul was just one stop in a perilous odyssey that began when IS swept across the country in 2014. Seattle Times(Dec 21, 2016) She left their home and community and set off on the perilous journey to the north. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) adj fraught with danger a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat Syn parlous, precarious, touch-and-go dangerous, unsafe involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm |
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