state of affairs

基本解释

The state of affairs is not very different today.
今天的事态并没有什么特别的不同。
Liberty is the rare state of affairs in mankind’s history. Arbitrary abuse and control by others is the standard, even now.
自由是人类历史上一种罕见的事态，而被某些人任意滥用和操纵却是常态，即使是现在。
He said the Arab state of affairs remains troubled and tense.
他说，阿拉伯事务的状态仍然是麻烦的、紧张的。

Last week, Mr.Hawass announced plans to resign from his position as head of the Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs.
It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.
他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。
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The Protestant Reformation, and especially the rising energies of Puritanism in the early seventeenth century, are beginning to do a lot to change this state of affairs.
新教宗教改革，尤其是活力不断上升的清教主义,在17世纪早期，为了改变这种状态开始做出许多努力。
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For the Kremlin's critics, Russia's new national anthem symbolizes the country's schizophrenic state of affairs.
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If you refer to a particular state of affairs, you mean the general situation and circumstances connected with someone or something.