1、circumstance

情況;情形;形勢

Recent opinion polls show that 60 percent favor abortion under certain circumstances.

最近的民意調(diào)查顯示，60%的人贊成在某些情況下可以墮胎。

The strategy was too dangerous in the explosive circumstances of the times.

在當(dāng)時(shí)那種一觸即發(fā)的形勢下，采取那樣的策略太危險(xiǎn)了。

（事件發(fā)生的）情形，詳情，原委

I'm making inquiries about the circumstances of Mary Dean's murder.

我在調(diào)查瑪麗·迪安謀殺案的詳情。

Hundreds of people had died there in terrible circumstances during and after the revolution.

在革命期間和其后的惡劣形勢下，那里有成百上千的人死去。

生活狀況;境況;(尤指)經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況

help and support for the single mother, whatever her circumstances.

不論單身母親的經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況如何均為其提供的幫助與扶持

I wouldn't have expected to find you in such comfortable circumstances.

我怎么也沒有想到你生活這么優(yōu)裕。

2、possession

占有；擁有

Those documents are now in the possession of the Guardian.

那些文件目前在《衛(wèi)報(bào)》手里。

We should go up and take possession of the land.

我們應(yīng)該北上占領(lǐng)那片土地。

所有物；財(cái)產(chǎn)；財(cái)物

People had lost their homes and all their possessions.

人們失去了自己的家園和所有的財(cái)物。

She had tidied away her possessions.

她已收拾好個(gè)人物品。

屬地；領(lǐng)地

All of them were French possessions at one time or another.

它們都曾是法國的領(lǐng)地。

Britain's imperial possessions.

大英帝國的屬地