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breaking point

突破点,转折点,爆发点,拐点

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the point at which a person, object, structure, etc., collapses under stress.
    • : the point at which a situation or condition becomes critical.

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Examples

  • At the same time, scientists have had to reckon with the limitations of models as tools — and with the realization that pandemics can push the utility of models to the breaking point.

  • He says, “When we look back, years from now, we may see that this was the breaking point.”

  • It’s going to exacerbate a situation that is already stretching hospitals to the breaking point in some areas.

  • They’re not realizing the stress that they’re having to hold on their shoulders until they’re at their breaking point.

  • Page said she reached a breaking point after losing custody of her children and being accused of contempt of court.

  • The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

  • Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!

  • To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.

  • Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link  or infrared pointer at this point.

  • But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.

  • This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.

  • His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.

  • Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.

  • That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.

  • When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.