The hospital in Harbin is already ______ of shocking mistreatment, as a 74-year-old man died of heart failure, after 67 days of treatment which cost the family 5.5 million yuan.
—It is raining hard. Will you go to your friend’s birthday party?
—I promised him to go, but the heavy rain really places me in a ______. I’m not sure whether I will go or not.