peril

英 ['perɪl; -r(ə)l] 美 ['pɛrəl]
  • n. 危险;冒险
  • vt. 危及;置…于险境

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。

来自柯林斯例句

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》

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