英语释义

1. a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice
faces this dilemma: raise interest rates and slow the economy or lower them and risk serious inflation

2. a situation involving such a choice
here am I brought to a very pretty dilemma; I must commit murder or commit matrimony
— George Farquhar broadly predicament
lords and bailiffs were in a terrible dilemma
— G. M. Trevelyan

3. a problem involving a difficult choice
the dilemma of "liberty versus order"
— J. M. Burns

4. a difficult or persistent problem
unemployment … the great central dilemma of our advancing technology
— August Heckscher

5. an argument presenting two or more equally conclusive alternatives against an opponent

6. a situation in which you have to make a difficult choice

7. a situation in which a person has to choose between things that are all bad or unsatisfactory
He was faced with the dilemma of having to tell on his best friend, or not telling and getting blamed himself.

英汉例句

• it is exactly that agile production oriented mass customization is the effective method to solve this dilemmatic problem.

  面向大规模定制的敏捷生产正是解决这个两难问题的有效方法。

• it has made the surgery face the dilemmatic conditions and needed to be dealt with imminently in the process of the clinical decisions.

  外科医生如何面对和选择，已成为临床决策过程中亟待解决的问题。

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catch-22（因沖突）无法摆脱的困境

double bind进退两难的处境

quandary困惑；窘境；为难