predicament
/prɪˈdɪkəmənt/noun
1
- a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation尴尬的处境, 困境; 危境：
the club's financial predicament.
俱乐部的财政困境。
2
- Philosophy, archaic (in Aristotelian logic) each of the ten 'categories', often listed as: substance or being, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, posture, having or possession, action, and passion【哲】〈古〉范畴（亚里士多德逻辑论十大范畴之一, 常列举为： 本体或存在、数量、性、关系、地点、时间、姿势、状态、活动和遭变）。
词源
late Middle English (in sense 2)： from late Latin praedicamentum 'something predicated' （rendering Greek katēgoria 'category'）， from Latin praedicare （see PREDICATE）. From the sense 'category' arose the sense 'state of being， condition'; hence 'unpleasant situation'.