plight
英検準1級窮状・苦境
意味
- 苦境,窮状
- …を誓う;〈人・自分〉に(…の)誓約をさせる《+名〈人〉+to+名》
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).