Critical

(adj.) marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; 'a critical attitude' .

(adj.) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; 'a critical reading'; 'a critical dissertation'; 'a critical analysis of Melville's writings' .

(adj.) being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; 'a critical shortage of food'; 'a critical illness'; 'an illness at the critical stage' .

(adj.) at or of a point at which a property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change especially having enough mass to sustain a chain reaction; 'a critical temperature of water is 100 degrees C--its boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure'; 'critical mass'; 'go critical' .

(adj.) forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis; 'a critical point in the campaign'; 'the critical test' .

(adj.) urgently needed; absolutely necessary; 'a critical element of the plan'; 'critical medical supplies'; 'vital for a healthy society'; 'of vital interest' .

(adj.) of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism; 'critical acclaim' .

录入:诺顿

• I say this here for two reasons--because I hope to avoid the critical attack of the genuine Marxian specialist, and because the observation is, I believe, relevant to our subject. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• By a most fortunate chance his leaving Highbury had been delayed so as to bring him to her assistance at this critical moment. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The first volume, as well as a portion of the second, was written before I had reason to suppose I was in a critical condition of health. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It was the critical moment of Oliver's fate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• There is no pretension whatever to any critical study of Das Kapital itself. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Fairway had meanwhile concluded a critical gaze at Yeobright. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• In a less critical situation the effort need not have been given up as hopeless even yet. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• One temple is said to have been so constructed as to face that part of the eastern horizon at which this star arose at the critical season of inundation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The man's voracious vanity devoured this implied tribute to his local and critical supremacy with an appearance of the highest relish. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She had an amazing instinctive critical faculty, and was a pure anarchist, a pure aristocrat at once. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Had Rachel reverted to this unlucky accident, at the critical moment when my place in her estimation was again, and far more seriously, assailed? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Through its critical process true knowledge is revised and extended, and our convictions as to the state of things reorganized. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Especially when the critical stage was passed, and he began to feel confident of Fred's recovery. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The American college student has the gravity and mental habits of a Supreme Court judge; his wild oats are rarely spiritual; the critical, analytical habit of mind is distrusted. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• RABBIT Gudrun knew that it was a critical thing for her to go to Shortlands. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• By great good fortune Twemlow receives a stimulant at this critical instant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the laSt. This looks well, eh? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I would not trust him in a critical case, said Marie; and I think I may say mine is becoming so! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• It is not moral in the sense that a person is moved by direct personal appeal from others, important as is this method at critical junctures. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• He represented himself as the loyal friend of Persia, and Darius was not disposed to be too critical. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Frazer still await a thorough critical examination, and to his works the reader must go for the indefatigable expansion of this idea. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hence a further need for a critical outlook and survey. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Miss Bart's immediate answer was to address a critical glance to the reflection of the countenance under discussion. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Under all conditions the light is properly screened and diffused to suit the critical eye of the camera man. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• But other forces were more frankly disobedient and critical. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The democratic culture must, with critical persistence, make man the measure of all things. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Liquid air is simply air which has been compressed and cooled to what is called its critical temperature and pressure, _i. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• No bracing critical atmosphere plays about his mind: there are no cleansing doubts and fruitful alternatives. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There is no evidence, however, that Americans as individuals are wanting in the self-critical spirit. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• This deficiency was likely to prove perilous in an emergency so critical. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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