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defining moment

决定性时刻,决定性的时刻,决定性的一刻,确定性的时刻

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.

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Examples

  • I was much stronger to face this defining moment in my life.

  • We are a few dozen immigrants from various shelters for whom the next few hours will be a defining moment to survive this process.

  • “This confirmation is a defining moment for Indigenous peoples not only in the United States but around the world,” said the council’s chairman, Wilfred Herrera, former governor of Laguna Pueblo.

  • While working on Intel’s 386 processor, he drew the attention of hard-driving Intel CEO Andy Grove, a “career defining moment,” Gelsinger said later.

  • It may not be pleasant, but it is a defining moment for them as well.

  • In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.

  • But Krauss said that from the moment he and the other scientists arrived on the island, they never saw anything untoward.

  • The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment.

  • At the moment, the only chance I get is when I go do Late Night with Seth Meyers.

  • And then I met him before I started doing the impression of him when he was a guest on SNL for a moment.

  • He was too drowsy to hold the thought more than a moment in his mind, much less to reflect upon it.

  • They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.

  • Her eyes, for a moment, fixed themselves with a horrid conviction of a wide and nameless treachery.

  • The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.

  • At this moment an extraordinary commotion began among the watches.