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 state of affairs
 情況,事態

 state of affairs
      n : the general state of things; the combination of
          circumstances at a given time; "the present international
          situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of
          affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither
          true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every
          new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt [syn: situation]