crisis
英 ['kra?s?s]美['kra?s?s]
- n. 危機；危險期；決定性時刻
- adj. 危機的；用于處理危機的
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詞態變化
復數:?crises;
助記提示
1. "turning point in a disease" 病情的轉折點。
2. 能夠看清楚、能夠判斷、能夠下決定、能夠辨別、區分病情情況的病情轉折點。當病情發展到這個轉折點時才能夠判斷病情是會好轉還是惡化等。
2. 能夠看清楚、能夠判斷、能夠下決定、能夠辨別、區分病情情況的病情轉折點。當病情發展到這個轉折點時才能夠判斷病情是會好轉還是惡化等。
中文詞源
crisis 危機
PIE*krei, 區分，篩選，詞源同crime, critic. 進一步來自PIE*sker, 砍，劈，詞源同shear,carnal. 引申義區分，選擇，危機。
英文詞源
- crisis (n.)
- early 15c., from Latinized form of Greek krisis "turning point in a disease" (used as such by Hippocrates and Galen), literally "judgment, result of a trial, selection," from krinein "to separate, decide, judge," from PIE root *krei- "to sieve, discriminate, distinguish" (cognates: Greek krinesthai "to explain;" Old English hriddel "sieve;" Latin cribrum "sieve," crimen "judgment, crime," cernere (past participle cretus) "to sift, separate;" Old Irish criathar, Old Welsh cruitr "sieve;" Middle Irish crich "border, boundary"). Transferred non-medical sense is 1620s in English. A German term for "mid-life crisis" is Torschlusspanik, literally "shut-door-panic," fear of being on the wrong side of a closing gate.
雙語例句
- 1. The Kremlin is still insisting on a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
- 俄羅斯中央政府依然堅持通過外交方式解決危機。
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- 2. An end to the crisis seems a long way off.
- 這場危機看來遠未結束。
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- 3. The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis.
- 政府正采取緊急措施解決住房危機。
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- 4. The Government is doing nothing to intervene in the crisis.
- 政府沒有采取任何行動對這次危機進行干預。
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- 5. The state government has lurched from one budget crisis to another.
- 州政府陷入一個又一個的預算危機。
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