Crisis
['kraɪsɪs]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; 'after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better'.
(noun.) an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; 'they went bankrupt during the economic crisis'.
錄入:玛丽埃塔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
(n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
黛安娜校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Acme, height, decisive turn, turning point.[2]. Exigency, emergency, juncture, conjuncture, pass, strait, rub, pinch, push, critical situation.
手打:洛葛仙妮
解釋/意思:
n. point or time for deciding anything the decisive moment or turning-point:—pl. Crises (krī′sēz).
安德鲁手打
例句/造句/用法:
- A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The crisis was serious. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He was off in one of those hysterical outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis is over and gone. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- It's a worse crisis than you think for, I can tell you. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Public attention was shifted and a political crisis avoided. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Statesmanship would go out to meet a crisis before it had become acute. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Things must come to a crisis soon now. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Would you do me the favour, miss, to take notice o' two promises and wows wot it is my wishes fur to record in this here crisis? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- She was then in attendance on the sick-bed of her husband, who lay delirious in the crisis of a fever. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- But I must run away now--I have no end of work now--it's a crisis--a political crisis, you know. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- But things are not coming to a crisis immediately. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The worst is, the wasps are impudent enough to dispute it with one, even at the very crisis and summit of enjoyment. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- There may be mysterious workings of the human mind, such as occur only at great crises of history. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- She was, at such crises, sadly deficient in finished manner, though she had once been at school a year. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- So the burden of national crises is squarely upon the dominant classes who fight so foolishly against the emergent ones. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Yet I do not wish to furnish the impression that crises are negligible. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The final result of the incident is that it proves more plainly than ever how unequal I am to certain crises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
整理:默尔