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Turning Point Disease Crisis Greek Literally Judgment Sieve

正面 1209.crisis
英 ['kraɪsɪs]美 ['kraɪsɪs]

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释义:
n. 危机;危险期;决定性时刻adj. 危机的;用于处理危机的
例句:
1. The Kremlin is still insisting on a diplomatic solution to the crisis.俄罗斯中央政府依然坚持通过外交方式解决危机。

1. "turning point in a disease" 病情的转折点。2. 能够看清楚、能够判断、能够下决定、能够辨别、区分病情情况的病情转折点。当病情发展到这个转折点时才能够判断病情是会好转还是恶化等。
crisis 危机PIE*krei, 区分,筛选,词源同crime, critic. 进一步来自PIE*sker, 砍,劈,词源同shear,carnal. 引申义区分,选择,危机。
crisis (n.)early 15c., from Latinized form of Greek krisis "turning point in a disease" (used as such by Hippocrates and Galen), literally "judgment, result of a trial, selection," from krinein "to separate, decide, judge," from PIE root *krei- "to sieve, discriminate, distinguish" (cognates: Greek krinesthai "to explain;" Old English hriddel "sieve;" Latin cribrum "sieve," crimen "judgment, crime," cernere (past participle cretus) "to sift, separate;" Old Irish criathar, Old Welsh cruitr "sieve;" Middle Irish crich "border, boundary"). Transferred non-medical sense is 1620s in English. A German term for "mid-life crisis" is Torschlusspanik, literally "shut-door-panic," fear of being on the wrong side of a closing gate."

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