| 单词 | crucial |
| 释义 | crucial (once / 713 pages) adj The word crucial describes something that is important or essential to success, like the crucial dress rehearsals that ensure everything will run smoothly on your play's opening night. Usage experts insist that the word crucial should be used only to describe something that is truly critical for solving a problem or for resolving a situation, such as a crucial vote that determines a final outcome. In this case the crucial vote is decisive: it determines the outcome. But the word has gained popularity as a way to say that something is important. You might hear someone say, for example, that it is crucial to allow employees to vote on the new schedule to make them feel like they’re part of the process. In this case the sense is “important”: nothing decisive is taking place. WORD FAMILYcrucial: cruciality, crucially, noncrucial USAGE EXAMPLESAttention to detail is crucial because the cuts aren’t erasable. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) Even so, both parties concurred on one point: American support for Israel was crucial for advancing the cause of peace. Salon(Jan 02, 2017) These complex processes may pass unnoticed by the driver, but their uninterrupted functioning is crucial. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis a crucial moment in his career a crucial election a crucial issue for women Syn|Ant important critical being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency critical, decisiveforming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis life-and-death, life-or-deathvitally important pivotal, polarbeing of crucial importance decisivedetermining or having the power to determine an outcome essentialbasic and fundamental noncrucial of little importance; not decisive 2adj of the greatest importance crucial information Syn all important, all-important, essential, of the essence important, of import of great significance or value 3adj having crucial relevance crucial to the case Syn material directly relevant to a matter especially a law case |
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