| 词汇 | crunch-time |
| 释义 | crunch time noun[ S ] uk /ˈkrʌntʃ ˌtaɪm/ us /ˈkrʌntʃ ˌtaɪm/ a point at which something difficult must be done: 困难时刻，面对困难时 He plays well without pressure, but can he produce at crunch time?他在没有压力的情况下打得很好，可是在困难时刻还能表现得同样好吗？ Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences a hard/tough row to hoeidiom abyss adversity at your worstidiom Augean bad hair day epidemic hardness have a bumpy rideidiom have someone over a barrelidiom pall purgatory push factor quagmire quicksand rabbit hole scrape strait the Augean Stablesidiom the hard wayidiom crunch time | American Dictionarycrunch time noun[ U ] us/ˈkrʌntʃ ˌtɑɪm/ a point at which something difficult must be done: He plays fine without pressure, but can he produce at crunch time? Examples of crunch timecrunch time This is the crunchtime for the internal market. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I am convinced that this is now crunchtime. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nevertheless, it is right that we should once more be airing the subject, because the crunchtime is just about to descend upon us. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have now reached the crunchtime, when we have to cut back. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Work on the games at crunchtime involved 80 hour weeks and stretches without sleep maxing out at 72 hours. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Crunchtime is the point at which the team is thought to be failing to achieve milestones needed to launch a game on schedule. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The company slipped behind near the end of the project and entered crunchtime to make up the loss. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The final four months of the game's development constituted crunchtime. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He completed under 50% of his passes and while throwing for over 300 passing yards, he also failed to connect on multiple passes in crunchtime. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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