Crisis

(noun.) a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; 'after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better'.

(noun.) an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; 'they went bankrupt during the economic crisis'.

录入:玛丽埃塔

• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The crisis was serious. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He was off in one of those hysterical outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis is over and gone. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It's a worse crisis than you think for, I can tell you. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Public attention was shifted and a political crisis avoided. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Statesmanship would go out to meet a crisis before it had become acute. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Things must come to a crisis soon now. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Would you do me the favour, miss, to take notice o' two promises and wows wot it is my wishes fur to record in this here crisis? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• She was then in attendance on the sick-bed of her husband, who lay delirious in the crisis of a fever. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But I must run away now--I have no end of work now--it's a crisis--a political crisis, you know. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• But things are not coming to a crisis immediately. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The worst is, the wasps are impudent enough to dispute it with one, even at the very crisis and summit of enjoyment. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• There may be mysterious workings of the human mind, such as occur only at great crises of history. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• She was, at such crises, sadly deficient in finished manner, though she had once been at school a year. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• So the burden of national crises is squarely upon the dominant classes who fight so foolishly against the emergent ones. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Yet I do not wish to furnish the impression that crises are negligible. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The final result of the incident is that it proves more plainly than ever how unequal I am to certain crises. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

整理:默尔