| 单词 | juncture |
| 释义 | juncture /jungk"cheuhr/, n. 1. a point of time, esp. one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out. 2. a serious state of affairs; crisis: The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made. 3. the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam. 4. the act of joining. 5. the state of being joined. 6. something by which two things are joined. 7. Phonet. a. a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, esp. marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words as night-rate and re-seed and absent in such words as nitrate and recede. Cf. close juncture, open juncture, terminal juncture. b. the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs. [1350-1400; ME < L junctura, equiv. to junct(us) (see JUNCTION) + -ura -URE] Syn. 1, 3. See junction. |
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