• n. 危險；冒險
• vt. 危及；置…于險境

來自PIE*per,向前，前進，詞源同ford,forth.引申詞義探索，開拓，風險，危險。比較其同源詞expert,experience.

peril

peril: [13] Etymologically, peril means a ‘trying out of something’, an ‘experiment’. The word comes via Old French peril from Latin perīculum ‘experiment, danger’, a noun formed from the base *per- ‘attempt’ (which also lies behind English empiric, experience, expert, pirate, and repertory). Its derivative perīculōsus originally reached English via Old French as perilous [13], but subsequently became contracted to parlous [14].
=> empiric, experience, expert, parlous, pirate, repertory

peril (n.)

c. 1200, from Old French peril "danger, risk" (10c.), from Latin periculum "an attempt, trial, experiment; risk, danger," with instrumentive suffix -culum and first element from PIE *peri-tlo-, suffixed form of root *per- (3) "to lead, pass over" (cognates: Latin experiri "to try;" Greek peria "trial, attempt, experience," empeiros "experienced;" Old Irish aire "vigilance;" Gothic ferja "watcher;" Old English f?r "danger, calamity"); related to *per- (1) "forward, through" (see per).

1. Anyone who breaks the law does so at their peril.

違法者要自擔后果。

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2. The British never awaken to peril until it is almost too late.

英國人從來不懂得防患于未然。

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3. In spite of great peril, I have survived.

雖然處境非常危險，我還是挺過來了。

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4. Ignore it at your peril.

無視該問題要自擔風險。

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5. The country's economy is now in grave peril.

現在，這個國家的經濟陷入了嚴重危機。

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