我想他当时处于一个极难应付的境地。

I think he was in an impossible position.

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他处于绝望的境地。

He was in desperate circumstances.

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妇女们处于进退两难的境地：若不结婚生子会被社会边缘化，但要两全其美则压力重重。

Women are caught in a double bind, marginalized in the community if they are not wives and mothers, under excessive pressure to be perfect if they are.

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The Second Brother, you'll remember, had taken what I take to be the perfectly reasonable position, the cautious position, that the Lady is in danger - that she's a sitting duck, in fact, out there in the dangerous forest.

戏中的弟弟，你们记得，采取了,我认为非常合理的立场，小心谨慎的立场，他认为那位少女处于危险的境地,-她只身于危险的丛林之中，极易受到伤害。

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