1. position
He enjoys his position.
At this rate, the risk is high that our country's competitive position will drop even further.
After John became manager, he told me he would never have expected to reach such a high position.
The police officer pointed his pistol at the criminal, who, in turn, held his pistol directly pointed at the officer. Neither had the advantage, the position was a stalemate.
Appointing Cuddles the Bear to the position of Secretary of Defense was one of the defining mistakes of Dolly's brief career as president of the People's Democratic Republic of Tea Time.
But she had not expected to cross an ocean, enter a new and romantic-sounding country, and find herself in exactly the same position.
There is a tendency for Japanese to want to know a certain amount of personal information about someone such as age, position and whether they are married or not, before they feel comfortable talking with a stranger.
Brilliant papers by Comrade Stalin allowed Soviet linguistics to take the leading position in the world.
In this paper I address the question, what is difficult about the intermediary's position in a negotiation?
to be in position to do sth - być w stanie coś zrobić / I'm sure they'd like to help her out financially, but they're not in a position to do so
Somebody who wavers between hope and fear over superficial things should not be appointed to a management position.
2. circumstances
Circumstances have changed.
Happiness and success in life do not depend on our circumstances, but on our efforts.
The massacre in Norway and the recent rebellion and the booty in England, are dreadful in consideration of the circumstances that the world drifted into.
Due to ill-health of the web-manager, loss of motivation and other circumstances I have decided that it is not possible to continue.
Although he was in such circumstances, he made his way by himself.
Long before Darwin's theory of evolution, Buffon had surmised that species evolved very slowly under different material circumstances.
At present a very great number of people are seeking to participate and, depending on circumstances, up to a month ahead is fully booked.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
The dump was surrounded by a high wire fence - no entry at any other time under any circumstances.
You can say that the circumstances were thus in the period leading up to the declaration of war.
1. But circumstances are not always ideal. / 2. So, even in other circumstances, it would have been a disaster. / 3. Under the circumstances, I'm afraid that's impossible.
Ordinarily, this was not a problem, but in the circumstances it could not have been worse.
英語 "という言葉موقعیت"(circumstances)集合で発生します。
01 Why are you happy?