circumstantial
/səɹ.kəmˈstænʃəl/ 形容词 C1中文： 间接证据的、随情况而定的、详尽的、仪式性的
- Pertaining to or dependent on circumstances, especially as opposed to essentials; incidental, not essential.
- Involving evidence that relies on inference to connect it to a conclusion of fact, thus, suggesting guilt but not directly proving it. · It is unlikely he will be convicted; the evidence against him is circumstantial at best.
- Abounding with minor circumstances; in great detail; particular.
- Full of circumstance or pomp; ceremonial.
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“Oh, sire,” replied the minister, “we have no occasion to invent any; every day our desks are loaded with most circumstantial denunciations, coming from hosts of people who hope for some return for services which they seek to render, but cannot; they trust to fortune, and rely upon some unexpected event in some way to justify their predictions.”
It is true, the letter of the Cardinal Spada was singularly circumstantial, and Dantès repeated it to himself, from one end to the other, for he had not forgotten a word.
He recounted, with circumstantial exactitude, all the particulars of the supper, the hashish, the statues, the dream, and how, at his awakening, there remained no proof or trace of all these events, save the small yacht, seen in the distant horizon driving under full sail toward Porto-Vecchio.
“In this simple way, madame,” replied Monte Cristo; “the waistcoat and the letter were both what is termed circumstantial evidence; I therefore sent them to the king’s attorney.
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