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midlife crisis

中年危机

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a period of psychological stress occurring in middle age, thought to be triggered by a physical, occupational, or domestic event, as menopause, diminution of physical prowess, job loss, or departure of children from the home.

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  • I feel as if I am in a mini midlife crisis of discovering my own power and questioning whether I have been squandering it to stay at the lower ambition level of my husband.

  • Many Gen Xers are facing their midlife crisis amid an ongoing crisis.

  • This just feels like a crossroads, or a classic midlife crisis — but it’s not a fixed or different state of being.

  • Maria Cosway, Jefferson’s mistress for six weeks, was a Renaissance woman who knew six languages, played the harp and was a gifted painter — at 27, the definition of a muse for a 43-year-old man going through a midlife crisis.

  • When Gates finally stepped down from day-to-day operations in 2008, the company was in a midlife crisis — still making huge amounts of money off Windows but being overtaken in emerging areas of computing by younger rivals Apple, Google and Facebook.

  • What is known is that Peña Nieto bungled his response to the crisis.

  • Consent is manufactured—like, remember the Ebola crisis from a few weeks ago?

  • And he said, I know you see this crisis through a very personal lens.

  • Are you more pessimistic about the overall public education crisis given this current environment?

  • The housing bubble was at very the center of the financial crisis that birthed Dodd-Frank.

  • Then Paterno adroitly brought matters to a crisis in a bold peroration which changed the whole scene.

  • The Afghan was true to his salt, and their own retainers, who had come with them from Lucknow, remained steadfast at this crisis.

  • Mamma had left the drawing-room, and I was sitting alone; I immediately saw that we had reached a crisis.

  • With the end of the moratorium on November 4, it may be said that the crisis produced by the outbreak of war was over.

  • Lombard Street has thus shown that it has fully learnt the only lesson that the external side of the crisis had to teach it.