境地 (jìng dì): 状況

The company has been losing money for three months straight and owes the bank a large sum; the boss is now caught in a dilemma.

She became unemployed right after graduating, but didn't dare tell her parents, and felt she had fallen into a very lonely and helpless situation.

With only five minutes left in the match, we were two goals behind; to turn the game around, we were already in an extremely difficult situation.

Because he didn't speak the language, when he fell ill alone abroad, he felt an unprecedented loneliness; that situation was something he would never forget.