Crucial

(adj.) of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis; 'a crucial moment in his career'; 'a crucial election'; 'a crucial issue for women' .

(adj.) having crucial relevance; 'crucial to the case'; 'relevant testimony' .

编辑:丽诺尔

• It was at this point that invention commenced, in order to produce a concrete mixture which would overcome this crucial difficulty. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For Airy this was a crucial question; but to Adams it seemed unessential, and he failed to reply. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Those are the crucial points upon which the case depends. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• In connection with this problem it is interesting to note that this question of high speed was apparently regarded by all Edison's predecessors as the crucial point. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It was something crucial to him. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• If tradition were a reverent record of those crucial moments when men burst through their habits, a love of the past would not be the butt on which every sophomoric radical can practice his wit. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In crucial issues, like taxation, the Socialists had to submit to the ideas,--the general state of mind of the community. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We now tried the crucial test of passing the etheric current through the sciatic nerve of a frog just killed. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He was to her the most crucial instance of the existing world, the NE PLUS ULTRA of the world of man as it existed for her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• None of the sheep that had been given the preventive treatment died from the crucial inocu lation; while all those succumbed which had not received previou s treatment. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

校对:拉里