circumstances
情况,环境,境况,情形
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Definitions
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- : a condition, detail, part, or attribute, with respect to time, place, manner, agent, etc., that accompanies, determines, or modifies a fact or event; a modifying or influencing factor: Do not judge his behavior without considering every circumstance.
- : Usually circumstances . the existing conditions or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent: Circumstances permitting, we sail on Monday.
- : an unessential or secondary accompaniment of any fact or event; minor detail: The author dwells on circumstances rather than essentials.
- : circumstances, the condition or state of a person with respect to income and material welfare: a family in reduced circumstances.
- : an incident or occurrence: His arrival was a fortunate circumstance.
- : detailed or circuitous narration; specification of particulars: The speaker expatiated with great circumstance upon his theme.
- : Archaic. ceremonious accompaniment or display: pomp and circumstance.
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cir·cum·stanced, cir·cum·stanc·ing.
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Examples
The House Foreign Affairs Committee’s hearing was part of a broader investigation into the circumstances surrounding Linick’s ouster in the spring.
The Anthropocene may seem like the right name now, but it is tethered too tightly to our present circumstance, defining our epoch by what is below us rather than ahead of us.
In any case, after about a week I had caught five star-nosed moles, more than I had expected under the best of circumstances.
So yes, there were circumstances that hindered his ability this postseason.
Some believed that was as good as possible, given the circumstances, and enough evidence that audiences would follow new releases into theaters.
And as he adjusted to this change in circumstances, he screamed at himself a second time: Wait!
Guilt, when dispensed in the circumstances Morris occupied, is the anti-Viagra.
The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.
I wish I could be writing to you under better circumstances, but unfortunately those avenues have closed up.
This was no strange sight to the boy by that time, but it was awkward in the circumstances, for he had neither gun nor spear.