请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 moment critique
释义

moment critiquen.

Brit. /ˌməʊmɒ̃ krᵻˈtiːk/, U.S. /ˌmoʊmɑn(t) krɪˈtik/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French moment critique.
Etymology: < French moment critique a decisive moment (1736 or earlier) < moment moment n. + critique critical adj. and n.
The crucial moment in a particular process, event, experience, etc. (Also with French definite article.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant > characterized by the quality of the experience
moment1872
moment critique1930
defining moment1967
1930 M. Lowry Let. Dec. (1995) 78 I told her that I would masturbate after finishing each chapter..with the result that I would run out of semen before la moment critique.
1969 ‘J. Ashford’ Prisoner at Bar xii. 116 Katherine and he, in Lovers' Lane, making love..interrupted at the moment critique.
1986 Country Life 18 Dec. 1962/1 The moment critique occurred at night and the appending [sc. falling] timber did not disturb a Benchers' dinner.
1999 Newsweek (Electronic ed.) 4 Oct. [He] is in the ‘top one percentile’ of patients exhibiting self-control at le moment critique.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1930
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/27 6:05:28