Crucial
['kruːʃ(ə)l] or ['krʊʃəl]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; 'a crucial moment in his career'; 'a crucial election'; 'a crucial issue for women' .
(adj.) having crucial relevance; 'crucial to the case'; 'relevant testimony' .
編輯:丽诺尔--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
(a.) Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross; decisive; as, a crucial test.
校對:贾斯廷
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Transverse, intersecting.[2]. Severe, searching, trying, decisive.
整理:诺拉
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Searching, probing, severe, discriminating, sharp, critical, piercing
ANT:Superficial, indifferent, mild, uncritical, lenient, lax
校對:罗伯特
解釋/意思:
adj. testing searching from the practice of marking a testing instance with a cross to draw attention to it.—adj. Cru′ciāte (bot.) arranged in the form of a cross as leaves or petals.
校對:拉里
例句/造句/用法:
- It was at this point that invention commenced, in order to produce a concrete mixture which would overcome this crucial difficulty. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For Airy this was a crucial question; but to Adams it seemed unessential, and he failed to reply. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Those are the crucial points upon which the case depends. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In connection with this problem it is interesting to note that this question of high speed was apparently regarded by all Edison's predecessors as the crucial point. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It was something crucial to him. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In crucial issues, like taxation, the Socialists had to submit to the ideas,--the general state of mind of the community. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We now tried the crucial test of passing the etheric current through the sciatic nerve of a frog just killed. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He was to her the most crucial instance of the existing world, the NE PLUS ULTRA of the world of man as it existed for her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- None of the sheep that had been given the preventive treatment died from the crucial inocu lation; while all those succumbed which had not received previou s treatment. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
校對:拉里