state: often implies sum of qualities at a particular time and place: the present ~ of economy.


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


situation: implies arrangement of circumstances that makes for particular condition such as embarrassment, advantage or difficulty: keep abreast with 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: 特指直接影响的结果，situation形势: 情形的交织(arrangement of circumstances)导致状况(condition)，status地位: 政法或社经方面的(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.