state of affairs

基本解釋

The state of affairs is not very different today.
今天的事態(tài)并沒有什么特別的不同。
Liberty is the rare state of affairs in mankind’s history. Arbitrary abuse and control by others is the standard, even now.
自由是人類歷史上一種罕見的事態(tài)，而被某些人任意濫用和操縱卻是常態(tài)，即使是現(xiàn)在。
He said the Arab state of affairs remains troubled and tense.
他說，阿拉伯事務(wù)的狀態(tài)仍然是麻煩的、緊張的。

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.
他認(rèn)為，關(guān)于文學(xué)的嚴(yán)肅的思考大多,被發(fā)表在流行雜志上很不妥當(dāng)。
耶魯公開課 - 文學(xué)理論導(dǎo)論課程節(jié)選
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，尤其是活力不斷上升的清教主義,在17世紀(jì)早期，為了改變這種狀態(tài)開始做出許多努力。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

For the Kremlin's critics, Russia's new national anthem symbolizes the country's schizophrenic state of affairs.
NPR: Russia Under Putin: Echoes of the Soviet Era

If you refer to a particular state of affairs, you mean the general situation and circumstances connected with someone or something.