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moment of truth

真理的时刻,关键时刻,真理时刻,真相时刻

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the moment in a bullfight at which the matador is about to make the kill.
    • : the moment at which one's character, courage, skill, etc., is put to an extreme test; critical moment.

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Examples

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

  • The simple, awful truth is that free speech has never been particularly popular in America.

  • 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.

  • Taraji manages to bring an equal measure of truth to the mother in her character.

  • And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.

  • Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.

  • 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.