milieu
n (pl ~s or ~x /-z; -z/) (usu sing 通常作单数) social surroundings; environment 社会环境; 环境
Coming from another milieu, she found life as an actor's wife very strange at first. 她嫁给一个演员後, 与自己原来的生活环境大不相同, 初时觉得这种生活十分陌生.
In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away protection money was paid to them.