state: most often implies the sum of the qualities involved in an existence at a particular time and place: the present ~ of the economy.


condition: more distinctly implies the effect of immediate or temporary influcences: was left in a feeble ~ after his illness.


situation: implies an arrangement of circumstances that makes for a particular resulting condition, such as of embarrassment, advantage, or difficulty: struggled to keep abreast of the changing political ~.


status: applies to one's state or condition as determined with some definiteness, especially for legal administrative purposes or by social or economic consinderations: improved her ~ in the company.


state状态: 性质的总和，condition状况: 指直接影响的结果，situation形势: 指情形的交织(arrangement of circumstances)，导致状况，status地位: 法律行政或社会经济方面的(状态状况)


记忆方法: 1) 首字母SCSS想成South China Sea和State<==南海状态

         2) 状态的意思是存在的方式或境况mean the way in which one manifests existence or the circumstances under which one exists or by which one is given a definite character.首字母SCSS想成South China Sea和State<==南海状态