| 单词 | crise de nerfs |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrise de (or des) nerfs = crisis n. Also in various French phrases, esp. crise de (or des) nerfs, an attack of nerves, a fit of hysterics. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun] > critical or decisive moment articlea1398 prick?c1422 crise?1541 push1563 in the nick1565 jump1598 concurrence1605 cardo1609 (the) nick of time (also occasionally opportunity, etc.)1610 edgea1616 climacterical1628 climacteric1633 in the nick-time1650 moment1666 turning-point1836 watershed1854 psychological moment1871 psychical moment1888 moment of truth1932 crunch1939 cruncher1947 high noon1955 break point1959 defining moment1967 midnight1976 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [noun] > stage of disease > crisis statea1400 crise?1541 crisis1543 judgement1547 judging day1547 vigour1563 fit1578 indicative day1624 station1651 status1663 acme1682 judicatory1684 solution1842 the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [noun] > critical point or crisis point?c1225 conjuncture1619 crise1643 juncture1656 crisis1659 hinge1775 cross-road1795 ?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Diij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens They haue wel and parfytly knowen the contemplacyon of the Cryse. 1643 R. Baillie Let. 22 Sept. (1841) II. 90 This seems to be a new period and crise of the most great affaire. a1763 W. Shenstone Progress of Taste iv. in Wks. Verse & Prose (1764) I. 279 Behold him, at some crise, prescribe, And raise with drugs the sick'ning tribe! 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 52 (Jam.) [She] thinks her wiss is now come to the creeze. 1921 W. J. Locke Mountebank xxi. 272 Reason enough for a crise de nerfs. Even I, who had nothing to do with it, found my equilibrium disturbed. 1922 M. Arlen ‘Piracy’ ii. i. 72 ‘Virginia has got a crise,’ Lois Lamprey commented. 1923 W. J. Locke Moordius & Co. vii. 96 Sometimes these crises de nerfs are dangerous. 1933 ‘G. Orwell’ Down & Out xx. 148 The cook usually had a crise de nerfs and a flood of tears. 1946 E. Taylor Palladian v. 49 When the time came for her to go to the party..there would be a painful crise de nerfs. 1962 I. C. S. Gregor & B. Nicholas Moral & Story v. 133 The crise de conscience that faces the serious contemporary novelist. 1962 N. Marsh Hand in Glove ii. 44 I'm afraid your Pixie has created a parochial crise. 1962 Punch 23 May 808/1 When there is a crise d'amour it is very peaceful for me. 1963 A. Hartley State of Eng. iii. 79 The Algerian crise de conscience that dissolved the authority of the French state. 1970 P. Bair Tribunal iii. v. 201 What then caused this crise de conscience? 1970 New Yorker 10 Oct. 178/2 She has been a splendid advertisement for the benefits of a happy marriage—conspicuously more relaxed, far less subject to those old crises des nerfs. < as lemmas |
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