Washington struck me as a precarious place from which to publish such a cerebral newspaper.

我觉得要在华盛顿这个地方出版一份这么理性的报纸前途未卜。

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The financial concessions were of a precarious character.

财政优惠具有不稳定性。

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The museum is in a financially precarious position.

这家博物馆的财政状况不稳定。

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"I think there is still a reasonable chance they could pass something, but they are going to have to come back, I think,and regroup in September and we may see that things are a little bit different than they are today, even perhaps a little more precarious for the passage of health care in September,".

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I think we're still in a precarious situation but I think we do have central bankers who are working effectively given the tools that they have.

我认为我们仍处于一个不稳固的情形之中,但是我们也有那些,用手中的金融工具有效率地工作的,中央银行主。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Three points is a precarious lead for a Democrat in August.

FORBES: The Olympics Help Republicans

You are not the most huggable guy on the planet, so that also puts you in a precarious position, absent a personality transplant.

FORBES: For Ohio State's Urban Meyer, Success Could Bring Misery

If the government's theory that Mr Savimbi is now the leader of a coalition of losers is correct, Mr Kabila's position is precarious: a renewed conflict in Angola would spill over into neighbouring countries.

ECONOMIST: Angola on the way to war