crux

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /kɹʌks/    美 /kɹʌks/|/krəks/|/kɹɐks/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
    — The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
  2. The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
    — The mad certitude of the ogre, Abel Tiffauges, that he stands at the crux of history and that he will be able to raise Prussia "to a higher power" (p. 180), contrasts sharply with the anxiety and doubt attendant upon most modern literary dreams.
  3. A puzzle or difficulty.
    — What I have advanced upon this species of verse will contribute to solve a poetical problem, thrown out by Dryden as a crux to his brethren
  4. The hardest point of a climb.
    — the real crux of the climb was encountered
  5. A cross on a coat of arms.

词形变化

cruxes plural cruces plural

词汇关系

衍生词
crux ansata crux decussata crux gammata crux ordinaria crux simplex cruxy
相关词
cross crucial crucible crucifix crucify

词源

Borrowed from Latin crux (“cross, wooden frame for execution”), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, to bend”). Doublet of cross and crouch (“cross”).
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