(n.) Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or
property to injury, loss, or destruction.
(v. t.) To expose to danger; to hazard; to risk; as, to peril
one's life.
(v. i.) To be in danger.
编辑:利瓦伊
双语例句
Don't talk like that with him in peril. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Restrain him,' cried Mr. Snodgrass; 'Winkle, Tupman--he must not peril his distinguished life in such a cause as this. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
You, sir, as a clergyman, said he, may feel it disagreeable to be present amidst scenes of hurry and flurry, and, I may say, peril. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
On another occasion he encountered a more novel peril by falling into the pile of wheat in a grain elevator and being almost smothered. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
What peril she has come through! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
I stand in no kind of peril, and I can by possibility be hurt at no one's hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
I am in deadly peril always, for these spasms are sudden and irregular, and of course I cannot tell when to be getting out of the way. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
With the clearing of her vision the sweep of peril had extended, and she saw that the post of danger was no longer at Dorset's side. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
At your peril you advertise! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.简·爱.
This magnificent indifference to placing his safety in peril for the second time, revived the flagging interest of the worshippers in the hero. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
What were a few long hours added to the hardships of some over-taxed brutes when weighed against the peril of those human souls? 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
She had saved his body, he said, and he was confident she did not mean to peril his soul. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
He then folded the quittance, and put it under his cap, adding,--Peril of thy beard, Jew, see that this be full and ample! 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
What little there was must at any rate be husbanded to the utmost; she could not trust herself again to the perils of a sleepless night. 伊迪丝·华顿.快乐之家.
There were no beaten paths, and the way was beset with unknown perils; there was no experience to guide. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
And yet this John Openshaw seems to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Sholtos. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
I saw and felt London at last: I got into the Strand; I went up Cornhill; I mixed with the life passing along; I dared the perils of crossings. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
In this instance, when the inventor was largely his own financier, the difficulties and perils were redoubled. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
That perils had thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
Then he had been tried by prosperity as well as adverse fortune, and had passed unhurt through the perils of both. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Among many activities he invented the safety-lamp, the object of which was to protect miners from the perils of exploding fire-damp. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
Exile to Bermuda with other insurgents was not so attractive as the perils of a flight to the United States. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Fire also had its perils. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
My first impulse was that we should all return to Versailles, there to assist in extricating our chief from his perils. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
But have you, I asked, formed any definite conception as to what these perils are? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯历险记.
Or when they are on a voyage, amid the perils of the sea? 柏拉图.理想国.