peril
英 ['perɪl; -r(ə)l]
美 ['pɛrəl]
助記提示
1. experience, experiment => peril.
中文詞源
peril 危險，險情來自PIE*per,向前，前進，詞源同ford,forth.引申詞義探索，開拓，風險，危險。比較其同源詞expert,experience.
英文詞源
- 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).
雙語例句
- 1. Anyone who breaks the law does so at their peril.
- 違法者要自擔後果。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The British never awaken to peril until it is almost too late.
- 英國人從來不懂得防患於未然。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. In spite of great peril, I have survived.
- 雖然處境非常危險，我還是挺過來了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Ignore it at your peril.
- 無視該問題要自擔風險。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The country's economy is now in grave peril.
- 現在，這個國家的經濟陷入了嚴重危機。
來自《權威詞典》