crisis

英 ['kra?s?s] 美['kra?s?s]

CET4TEM4IELTS考研CET6中高頻詞核心詞匯

復數:?crises;

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。

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。

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.

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。

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。

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。

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。