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situation

/sich-oo-ey-shuhn/US // ˌsɪtʃ uˈeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən) //

情况,状况,局势,局面

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment: The situation of the house allowed for a beautiful view.
    • : a place or locality.
    • : condition; case; plight: He is in a desperate situation.
    • : the state of affairs; combination of circumstances: The present international situation is dangerous.
    • : a position or post of employment; job.
    • : a state of affairs of special or critical significance in the course of a play, novel, etc.
    • : Sociology. the aggregate of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors acting on an individual or group to condition behavioral patterns.

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Examples

  • I believe this is likely what is happening with a data rights and ownership situation between Google and advertisers.

  • Both Sharon Whitehurst-Payne, the school board member who represents the area, and Barrera acknowledged the school did not handle the situation well.

  • To anyone who lives here, or anyone who’s watching, the situation is maddening and seems utterly unsustainable.

  • That’s certainly a situation that no one wants to be put in.

  • Other situations could give a magnetar a halo of electrons, but protons would come only from the magnetar itself.

  • Her slight miscalculation of how to fix the situation leads to her driving around the gas pump.

  • When the problem is already political, when the intolerable situation is the status quo?

  • The girls send a cry for help…the situation of these girls is distressing.

  • Among whites, the situation is also bad — in some ways, even worse.

  • She had no say in it, but now is being forced to deal with an already challenging situation in front of strangers.

  • We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.

  • In this situation we waited the motion of the enemy, without perceiving any advancement they made towards us.

  • He could not bear to open his dreadful situation to his Uncle David, nor to kill himself, nor to defy the vengeance of Longcluse.

  • He saw that the situation was worse than even he had bargained for, and all his irresolution began to return upon him.

  • And this fact seemed pregnant with evidence as to Gordon's state of mind; it did not appear to simplify the situation.