| 单词 | crisis |
| 释义 | crisiscrisis /ˈkraɪsɪs/ ●●○ S3 W3 noun (plural crises /-siz/) [countable, uncountable] 1a very bad or dangerous situation that might get worse, especially in politics or economics: a book about the Cuban missile crisiseconomic/financial/political etc. crisis the long economic crisis of the 1930sresolve/solve a crisis He urged the country’s leaders to resolve the crisis peacefully. Is the Social Security program facing a crisis?crisis in the crisis in American education Is the car industry in crisis?2a time when an emotional problem or illness is at its worst: In times of crisis you find out who your real friends are. The book’s young hero is in the midst of an identity crisis (=feeling uncertain about what he wants to be). Her family helped her through the crisis.3a crisis of/in confidence a situation in which people do not believe that a government, economy, system, etc. is working in the way that it should so that they will not support it or work with it anymore: crisis in The disaster led to a crisis of confidence in NASA’s leadership.4crisis management the skill or process of dealing with unusually dangerous or difficult situations [Origin: 1400–1500 Latin, Greek krisis decision, from krinein to judge, decide] → see also midlife crisis |
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