| 词汇 | turning-point |
| 释义 | turning point noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˈtɜː.nɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt/ us /ˈtɝː.nɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt/ the time at which a situation starts to change in an important way: 转折点，转机 The organization called the new regulations a turning point in the campaign against smoking.该组织称这些新规定是禁烟运动的转折点。 The turning point in her political career came when she was chosen to run for a Senate seat.她被推选参加竞选参议院议员，这成为她政治生涯的转折点。 Turning points & deciding moments be at a crossroadsidiom boiling point breakthrough brink climax coming of age crunch D-Day defining moment drop-dead date edge flashpoint if/when it comes to the crunchidiom landmark milestone moment point of no return red-letter day the moment of truthidiom watershed turning point | American Dictionaryturning point noun[ C ] us/ˈtɜr·nɪŋ ˌpɔɪnt/ the time when a situation starts to change in an important, esp. positive, way: Having the baby was a turning point in their lives. literature The turning point in a work of literature is the moment or section when the action begins to move toward the climax (= the most important or exciting part). turning point | Business Englishturning point noun[ C,usually singular ] ukus a time when a situation starts to change in an important way: be at/mark/reach a turning pointFigures published last month suggest the housing market is at a turning point. The turning point came when the company's products were featured in the national press. a crucial/real/significant turning point Examples of turning pointturning point If no such turningpoint could be identified, the measurement was taken at mid-point. For the healthcare systems of both countries the postwar period was a turningpoint. The income level at which the turningpoint occurs is however unaffected by the normalization procedure. A turningpoint is one in which the average developmental trajectory is disrupted in a positive or negative fashion. The year 1948 was a turningpoint; it saw the emergence of an information metanarrative. The turningpoint came in one of those public moments of humiliation commonly undergone by prima donnas. When the inner electron reaches its inner turningpoint, the outer electron experiences a net attractive force from the screened nuclear potential. A turningpoint seems to have been reached sometime in 1933. Turningpoint predictions are calculated using a two quarters rule, as detailed in the next section. The trajectory of the turningpoint is dense for almost all tent maps. In this historical perspective, available evidence shows that the turningpoint came in the early 1950s. The turningpoint for him came with understanding the interpretation of negative and imaginary numbers as points on the complex plane. However, the impending release of a high-quality draft genome sequence in 2005 should mark a turningpoint in these efforts. But the position of the turningpoint is indeterminate only because they assume general functional forms for the utility and abatement functions. A major focus of attention is the behavior of the restriction of the map to the closure of the orbit of the turningpoint. See all examples of turning point These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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