It's a pretty state of affairs when I come home from work and you haven't even cooked my dinner!

我下班回家，你甚至还没有做好晚饭，多妙的情况啊！

youdao

And I think that is a pretty sad commentary on the state of affairs over at the White House lately.

在我看来，不幸这恰恰表明了白宫方面目前的状态是如何不佳。

youdao

It's a pretty state of affairs, in his view, when the most rigorous thinking that's being done about literature is being done in popular journals.

他认为，关于文学的严肃的思考大多,被发表在流行杂志上很不妥当。

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