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单词 extenuating circumstance
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extenuating circumstance

collocation in English

meaningsofextenuatingandcircumstance

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extenuating
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ɪkˈsten.ju.eɪ.tɪŋ/us
/ɪkˈsten.ju.eɪ.t̬ɪŋ/
causing a wrong act to be judged less seriously by giving reasons ...
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circumstance
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us
/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofextenuatingandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofextenuating circumstance

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I merely mention, as anextenuatingcircumstance, that it is not alone in that.
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This is anextenuatingcircumstance, and we should think constructively of extending privileges for these inspctors.
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Is that anyextenuatingcircumstance?
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However, on that occasion there was theextenuatingcircumstanceof the introduction of a surprise clause.
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I may add theextenuatingcircumstancethat when a prima donna is absent, it is not unusual for a reluctant understudy to be put on to play the role.
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It is a misfortune that theextenuatingcircumstanceis separated from the operative word "failure".
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It is a new form of dealing with failure without reasonable excuse to separate the fault of failure from theextenuatingcircumstanceof "with reasonable excuse".
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The judge reduced the penalty to its lowest limit due to theextenuatingcircumstanceof no prior criminal records.
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When verification of an attendant circumstance decreases the penalty, it is known as a "mitigating" or "extenuatingcircumstance".
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Were there extreme extenuating circumstances that made delivery impossible?
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Moreover, technology decisions should generally adhere to this position posture, although occasionally opportunistic and extenuating circumstances may lead to technology decisions that are at variance with the institution's overall posture.
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It is always a very grave offence, even in the most extenuating circumstances.
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The special extenuating circumstances make this a borderline case.
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This is a relatively short period, and it is short precisely because it has been possible to find extenuating circumstances.
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I hope that such extenuating circumstances will lead to sensitive and sensible enforcement.
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This is a borderline case with special extenuating circumstances.
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The greatest care is exercised to find extenuating circumstances.
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We want to know whether such extenuating circumstances exist in this particular case.
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When was there one before with such extenuating circumstances as these?
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It seems to me that it would be impossible to define extenuating circumstances because for many reasons they are so various.
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external circumstances

collocation in English

meaningsofexternalandcircumstance

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external
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstɜː.nəl/us
/ɪkˈstɝː.nəl/
of, on, for, or coming from ...
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circumstance
noun
uk
/ˈsɜː.kəm.stɑːns/us
/ˈsɝː.kəm.stæns/
a fact or event that makes a situation the way ...
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(Definition ofexternalandcircumstancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexternal circumstances

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One reason is deteriorating external circumstances, which lower both the private and communal profitability of investment in the resource base.
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On his view, external circumstances can affect virtue - thus, it is not entirely self-sufficient.
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However, neither external circumstances nor identities were fixed.
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As well, an outcome selected freely from a fuller set of choices may be less preferred when constrained by external circumstances.
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Such a change is not 'forced on them' by external circumstances; it is an outgrowth of their own relationship to the tradition.
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This is a case where an institution deteriorates even when there is no deterioration in external circumstances, nor population pressure.
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Much of this literature is dedicated to stochastic games in which external circumstances can change from one period to the next.
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According to the cognitive theory, depression is a result of negative thought patterns and not in itself the result of the individual's present external circumstances.
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Needless to say, creative ambitions change and external circumstances impinge in unpredictable ways.
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Evidence can clarify better than dogma the relative impacts of structure and will, of external circumstances and ideology, of impersonal forces and the charismatic individual.
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A nation's life was determined not by moral will, but by external circumstances operating under natural and inevitable causes.
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Of course, this does not mean that the law only responds to these external circumstances.
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Not everyone will be satisfied with the application of this methodology to cross-country comparisons, since external circumstances for all three countries have been so very different.
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We should, however, keep a weather eye open for the event that external circumstances do not prove propitious.
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There are external circumstances and internal reactions to them.
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Incapacity refers to a person, and not to external circumstances.
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In recent years external circumstances have made the task of statistical monitoring more difficult.
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These men want to get a living, and they are prevented by some external circumstances.
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