circumstantial
a. 依照情况的
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释义与例句
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1.
Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance.
枝节
the circumstantials of religion
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2.
An adjunct or circumstant.
语言学
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1.
Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
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2.
Involving evidence that relies on inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, thus, suggesting guilt but not directly proving it.
间接证据的
法律It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best.
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3.
Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
随情况而定的
详尽的
For although my information appears too direct and circumstantial to be fictitious, yet the magnitude of the enterprise, the desperation of the plan, and the stupendous consequences with which it seems pregnant, stagger my belief […]
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4.
Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.
仪式性的
词汇关系
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词源
From Latin circumstantia + English -al, equivalent to circumstance + -ial.
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