| 词汇 | precarious |
| 词源 | precarious [E17th] This is from Latin precarius ‘obtained by entreaty’, from prex, prec- ‘prayer’. The notion is one of something being dependent on the good grace of somebody else (needing entreaty), and therefore uncertain. Prayer [ME] is from the same word. |
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