英语词典 · 单词释义
circumstance
英 ['sɜːkəmst(ə)ns] 美 ['sɝkəmstæns]
这里集中整理“circumstance”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
单词速览
词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 环境，情况；事件；境遇
延伸内容
词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: circumstances;
助记提示
1. 圈子之内的环境、情况。
中文词源
circumstance 状况
circum-,圈，周围，-stance,词源同stand,站立，位置。
英文词源
- 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).
双语例句
- 1. You might say that we've been victims of circumstance.
- 你可以说我们一直不走运吧。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. There are those, you know, who, by circumstance, end up homeless.
- 您知道，会有那么一些人，因为命运捉弄而落得无家可归。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Any unexpected circumstance that arises may catalyze a sudden escalation of violence.
- 任何突如其来的情况都可能造成暴力骤然升级。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. You should soon accommodate yourself to the new circumstance.
- 你应尽快适应新环境.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. There is one important circumstance you have not mentioned.
- 还有一件重要的细节你没提到.
来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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