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Creating a new search engine is a tremendous risk at this stage because it's remarkably expensive to build and market one that has any chance in the mass market. To make the proposition harder, not only do people prefer Google to other products, but also most people are not able to tell whether a search product coming to market now is better. Good is so excellent that it is not good anymore.

In a difficult, threatening, or embarrassing position; also, unable to solve a dilemma.

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dilemma Show phonetics
noun [C]
a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do:
The President is clearly in a dilemma about/over how to tackle the crisis.
She faces the dilemma of disobeying her father or losing the man she loves.
a moral/ethical dilemma



n.

1. A situation that requires a choice between options that are or seem equally unfavorable or mutually exclusive.
2. Usage Problem. A problem that seems to defy a satisfactory solution.
3. Logic. An argument that presents two alternatives, each of which has the same consequence.

[Late Latin, from Greek dilēmma, ambiguous proposition : di-, two; see di–¹ + lēmma, proposition; see lemma¹.]

n. - 困境, 進退兩難, 兩難推理, 兩刀論法

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ジレンマ, 窮地

ジレンマ ₂ [dilemma]

〔ディレンマとも〕
(1)自分の思い通りにしたい二つの事柄のうち、一方を思い通りにすると他の一方が必然的に不都合な結果になるという苦しい立場。板ばさみ。
「生活と研究の―に苦しむ」「―に陥る」
(2)〔論〕 三段論法の一。二つの仮言的判断からなる大前提と、その判断を選言的に肯定もしくは否定する小前提から、結論を導き出すもの。例えば、「前に進めば虎と出会い、後ろに退けば狼と出会う」「前に進むか後ろに退くかしかない」「したがって虎と出会うか狼と出会うかであり、いずれにしても困った結果となる」の類。両刀論法。

日本發音疑直接自希臘文
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δίλημμα

	2007/11/28

　　【日經BP社報導】 以日歐的汽車廠商為中心，開發超低價車的發表接連不斷。其目的是在收入相對較低的新興國家普及的汽車。話雖如此，但汽車廠商此前一直是通過導入電子技術等 方式提高商品價值，維持汽車價格的。而現在汽車價格開始急劇下降，無疑是對技術的巨大挑戰。如何才能把價格降下來呢？首先要做的就是削減不必要的裝置和功 能。比如，把車載導航儀從標準配置中去掉，就連不是技術人員的我，也會想到這樣做。然後就是設法減少一個螺釘，或者減少一個焊點。但是這裡，就出現了一個 非常令人擔憂的問題。

　　對於汽車技術人員而言，開發與“安全”相關的技術是“當然”的命題。氣囊、防鎖死煞車系統（ABS）、側滑防止裝置都與安全技術相關。毋庸置 疑，通過這些技術，汽車的安全性有了飛躍性地提高。電子技術也得到了充分應用。最初就加入開發工作的技術人員大概都曾為開發出新技術而感到喜悅，為保護眾 多生命的使命感而激情澎湃。他們的夥伴——電子廠商的技術人員在開發時也會有同樣的感受。但是，在汽車中配備這些技術需要相應的成本。

　　那麼，開發超低價車的技術人員又會怎樣呢？在前人的努力下，氣囊及ABS等安全技術獲得了重大發展。我不知道30年前的情況，不過在現在的日 本，這些已經成為了標準配備的技術。上市不具備這些技術的汽車行得通嗎？恐怕平日把“安全”作為最高命題進行開發的汽車廠商的技術人員無法做出那樣的選 擇。不過某汽車廠商的技術人員也認為：“在超低價車中配備基於電子的安全技術非常困難”。雖然可以知難而上，但目前的確有很多矛盾的地方。以筆者之見，這 些矛盾大概是超低價車開發中最難跨越的障礙。（記者：清水 直茂）

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超低価格車の安全技術とジレンマを想像する




proposition
n.

1. A plan suggested for acceptance; a proposal.
2. A matter to be dealt with; a task: Finding affordable housing can be a difficult proposition.
3. An offer of a private bargain, especially a request for sexual relations.
4. A subject for discussion or analysis.
5. Logic.
   1. A statement that affirms or denies something.
   2. The meaning expressed in such a statement, as opposed to the way it is expressed.
6. Mathematics. A theorem.

tr.v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.

To propose a private bargain to, especially to propose sexual relations with.

[Middle English proposicion, from Old French proposition, from Latin prōpositiō, prōpositiōn-, setting out in words, from prōpositus, past participle of prōpōnere, to set forth. See propose.]

propositional prop'o·si'tion·al adj.
propositionally prop'o·si'tion·al·ly adv.
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