juncture
关口,交接点,关头,接缝处
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- : a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- : a serious state of affairs; crisis: The matter has reached a juncture and a decision must be made.
- : the line or point at which two bodies are joined; joint or articulation; seam.
- : the act of joining.
- : the state of being joined.
- : something by which two things are joined.
- : Phonetics. a pause or other phonological feature or modification of a feature, as the lengthening of a preceding phoneme or the strengthening of a following one, marking a transition or break between sounds, especially marking the phonological boundary of a word, clause, or sentence: it is present in such words as night-rate and re-seed and absent in such words as nitrate and recede.Compare close juncture, open juncture, terminal juncture. the point in a word or group of words at which such a pause or other junctural marker occurs.
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Examples
Thomas’ genius is her ability to craft one man’s history in a way that illuminates the forces that brought us to this critical juncture.
Three years later, these projects—with names like Polkadot, Filecoin and Dfinity—are reaching a critical juncture.
Another crucial career juncture was Fraser’s decision to accept the role of running strategy for Citi at the beginning of the financial crisis.
At this important juncture, we asked several experts from different fields what their burning question about the coronavirus is.
In 2016, polls showed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton ahead in numerous battleground states at this juncture in the race, but her lead narrowed and ultimately vanished in key states as October wore on.
Logistics wins the day, and the Supreme Deity is, at this juncture, nowhere to be seen.
There was no social cachet associated with jazz at that juncture in American history—if anything, the contrary.
At a time when U.S.-Iran relations are at a crucial juncture, the claims in The Good Spy will not be welcome.
The correlation between tiredness and activity is not proven—at this juncture, anyway.
And then suddenly fall like a ten-pound weight on the keyboard at just the right juncture?
Mr. Lowten bethought himself, at this juncture, of looking out of the window.