| 释义 | circumstantially adverb
 uk /ˌsɜː.kəmˈstæn.ʃəl.i/ us /ˌsɝː.kəmˈstæn.ʃəl.i/
 in a way that contains information, especially about a crime, that makes you think something is true, but does not completely prove it:
 Circumstantially the evidence is strong, but so far, it is still not enough.
 The defendants have been linked circumstantially to the murders.
 The evidence established circumstantially that he had been driving while under the influence of alcohol.
 He was temperamentally and circumstantially one of the least likely people to find himself in this kind of mess.
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