| 单词 | circumstantial |
| 释义 | cir·cum·stan·tial I. 1. < a historical novel … full of circumstantial life — Jean Garrigue > < circumstantial developments not covered in the main plan > < a purely circumstantial outcome to the play > 2. < a hard life, stripped of every circumstantial grace — Isabel Paterson > < the forces which thrust him down are circumstantial rather than inevitable — C.C.Walcutt > 3. < his circumstantial accounts of his adventures — Richard Griffith > 4. < the circumstantial splendor of the coronation > Synonyms: < I solemnly declare that I am at this time in the possession of my right mind — that my memory is exact and circumstantial — Charles Dickens > < the story of the rattlesnake chasing the squirrel was too circumstantial to have been invented — Constance M. Rourke > minute suggests searching, close attention to even the smallest details < she was interested in the little details and writes with minute care about the change of fashion — Gamaliel Bradford > < Plato, the foe of the mechanical, in the Laws … provides for the state a perfect jumble of minute regulations — John Buchan > particular implies a zealous care about and attention to details < I should have been more particular in my account of Miss Unwin if I had had materials for a minute description — William Cowper > particularized, that is, treated or presented with full particulars, has pretty much superseded particular in reference to accounts, descriptions, and so on < a most concrete, particularized, earthy series of small diurnal recognitions — J.C.Powys > detailed simply indicates treatment with a wealth of detail and lacks any special connotation < his [Ruskin's] detailed criticisms of architecture and painting — Bliss Perry > itemized, mostly commercial in use and suggestion, indicates a specific and separate listing or inclusion of each item, as each charge, cost, or deduction < an itemized bill from the hotel > < an itemized list of stock losses accompanying the tax return > II. < the main point of an argument and the circumstantials > |
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