crisis

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹaɪsɪs/    美 /ˈkɹaɪsɪs/|/ˈkɹɑesɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
  2. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
    — The financial crisis could have been avoided and was the result of poor decision making both in Washington and at top financial firms that fostered a culture of excessive risk taking, according to a draft report written by Democrats on a panel that investigated the meltdown and obtained by Reuters.
  3. A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
  4. A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
    — I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.
  5. A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

词形变化

crises plural

词汇关系

衍生词
acrisia Asian songbird crisis behavioral crisis budget crisis climate crisis constitutional crisis crisis actor crisis center crisis hotline crisis intervention crisisless crisis line crisis management crisis response team crisis-ridden crisitunity currency crisis diabetic crisis ecocrisis economic crisis energy crisis epicrisis epistemic crisis Eurocrisis European debt crisis existential crisis financial crisis healing crisis humanitarian crisis identity crisis international crisis Messinian salinity crisis mid-life crisis midlife crisis minicrisis multicrisis never waste a crisis noncrisis oxygenation crisis oxygen crisis permacrisis personal crisis polycrisis postcrisis precrisis psychedelic crisis psychological crisis quarter-life crisis renal crisis replication crisis scissors crisis software crisis
相关词
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词源

From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek κρίσις (krísis, “a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute”), from κρίνω (krínō, “pick out, choose, decide, judge”).
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