circumstance

英 ['s??k?mst(?)ns] 美['s?k?mst?ns]

TEM4CET4IELTSTOEFLCET6中頻詞常用詞匯

復數:?circumstances;

1. 圈子之內的環境、情況。

circumstance 狀況

circum-,圈，周圍，-stance,詞源同stand,站立，位置。

circumstance: circumstance: see statue
circumstance (n.): early 13c., "conditions surrounding and accompanying an event," from Old French circonstance "circumstance, situation," also literally, "outskirts" (13c., Modern French circonstance), from Latin circumstantia "surrounding condition," neuter plural of circumstans (genitive circumstantis), present participle of circumstare "stand around, surround, encompass, occupy, take possession of" from circum "around" (see circum-) + stare "to stand" from PIE root *sta- "to stand" (see stet). The Latin word is a loan-translation of Greek peristasis.

Meaning "a person's surroundings, environment" is from mid-14c. Meaning "a detail" is from c. 1300; sense of "that which is non-essential" is from 1590s. Obsolete sense of "formality about an important event" (late 14c.) lingers in Shakespeare's phrase pomp and circumstance ("Othello" III, iii).

2. There are those, you know, who, by circumstance, end up homeless.: 您知道，會有那么一些人，因為命運捉弄而落得無家可歸。

3. Any unexpected circumstance that arises may catalyze a sudden escalation of violence.: 任何突如其來的情況都可能造成暴力驟然升級。

4. You should soon accommodate yourself to the new circumstance.: 你應盡快適應新環境.

5. There is one important circumstance you have not mentioned.: 還有一件重要的細節你沒提到.