0 an unpleasant condition, especially a serious, sad, or difficult one -- 困境，窘境
1 to (promise to) marry -- 答應結婚，訂婚；結婚
We have heard more about our honour being plighted to-day than we have heard for months.
Increases of that magnitude will have shattered even the most careful of household budgets and will have plunged thousands of families into the most desperate of financial plights.
Their plights vary from fair to dreadful.
Then a doctor who served the same village described the plights of the people, on how they fought and ended this.
However, his plights were ignored and the governor's ruling was upheld.
Serfs could also escape their plights if they survived twenty-five years of service in the armed forces.
Their individual plights are intertwined throughout the book.
The plight and sufferings of local forced laborers were not a feature in these accounts.
