conjuncture

conjuncture
noun
  1. a combination of events
    (事件的)结合,同时发生
    it was due to the happy conjuncture of two facts.
    这要归功于两个事实的巧妙结合。
    ■a state of affairs
    局面,事态,情况
    the wider political conjuncture.
    更广阔的政治格局。
语源
  1. early 17th cent.: from conjunction, by substitution of the suffix; influenced by obsolete French conjuncture, from Italian congiuntura, based on Latin conjungere 'join together' (see conjoin)
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