circumstantial
circumstantial 英 [ˌsɜ:kəmˈstænʃl] 美 [ˌsɜrkəmˈstænʃl]
adj. 依照情况的；详细的，详尽的；偶然的
名词复数:circumstantials
- Circumstantial is a word that refers to specific details about something: in other words, about circumstances. Circumstantial evidence might implicate someone's guilt, but it certainly doesn't prove them guilty.
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- adj. 依照情况的；详细的，详尽的；偶然的
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1. We should point out that the evidence is purely circumstantial.
我们应该指出，证据完全是依情况而定的。
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2. In court you would say there was some circumstantial evidence for it, but no proof.
在法庭上你只能说有它存在的一些旁证，但没有足以一锤定音的证据。
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3. The author should be someone who knows your work well enough to write a circumstantial letter.
写推荐信的人应该对你的学习有充分的了解，才能写出一份详尽的推荐信。
- circumstantial (adj.) c. 1600, "attending, incidental," also "derived from circumstances," from Latin circumstantia (see circumstance) + -al (1). Related: Circumstantially. Legalese circumstantial evidence "evidence from more or less relevant circumstances bearing upon a case," as distinguished from direct testimony, is attested by 1691.
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