your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you);
"whatever my fortune may be" "deserved a better fate" "has a happy lot" "the luck of the Irish" "a victim of circumstances" "success that was her portion"
a person's financial situation (good or bad);
"he found himself in straitened circumstances"
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用作名词(n.)
Circumstances have compelled a change of plan.因情况所迫，计划已经改变。
Maybe under these circumstances we may say that man can conquer nature.也许在这样的情况下我们可以说人定胜天。
He is in bad, distressed circumstances.他境遇贫困，生活痛苦。
Circumstances combined early to make her view the world as a vale of tears.种种境遇使她很早就认为这世间苦难无边。
