jeopardy

英 [ˈdʒepədi]

美 [ˈdʒepərdi]

n.  危险

复数：jeopardies　

TOEFLGRE法律

Collins.1 / BNC.11530 / COCA.8398

习惯用语

n.

in jeopardy
• 处于危险境地；受到威胁
  in a dangerous position or situation and likely to be lost or harmed

柯林斯词典

• PHRASE 处于危险境地；受到威胁
  If someone or something isin jeopardy, they are in a dangerous situation where they might fail, be lost, or be destroyed.
  1. A series of setbacks have put the whole project in jeopardy.
     一系列的挫折使整个项目面临失败。

英英释义

noun

• a source of danger
  1. drinking alcohol is a health hazard
  Synonym:hazardperilriskendangerment

双语例句

• So my immediate professional concern is whether you put the president into jeopardy as well.
  所以我马上职业地关注你是否也将总统置于危险之中。
• If we were run out of Vietnam under these conditions, our entire foreign policy would be in jeopardy.
  如果我们在这样的情况下被赶出越南，我们的整个外交政策将处于危险的境地。
• If you repeat what I'm about to tell you, both our lives are in jeopardy.
  要是你泄露了我告诉你的事，我们两个都有性命之忧。
• She had placed herself in jeopardy in order to save my life.
  她曾经为了救我的命冒了很大的危险。
• I see a cop in jeopardy, he's on his own.
  如果我看见警察有危险，那就得靠他自己了。
• Why wouid you do this? You put us all in jeopardy.
  你为什么要这样做，你把我们都置于危险中。
• Presently I recognized that the jeopardy was illusory if the doubts were right.
  不久我认识到，如果怀疑是正确的，危险就是虚幻的。
• The disease is spreading, and all the citizens are at risk. Their lives were put in jeopardy.
  疾病在传播，所有居民都有感染的危险。他们的生命处於危险中。
• I may have been nine when I began to worry about the absurdity of heaven and eternal life, and about the jeopardy that I was incurring by those evil doubts.
  大约在我9岁的时候，我开始担忧天堂和永生的荒谬性，也担忧这些不敬的怀疑给我带来的危险。
• Except I think you've replaced jeopardy with certain death.
  除了我想你把危险替换成了某种死亡。