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 crucial ['kru:ʃiəl, 'kru:ʃəl]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 决定性的, 重要的, 严厉的

[医] 十字形的; 决断的, 定局的


  1. Negotiations were at a crucial stage.
    谈判正处于一个关键的阶段。
  2. The cylinder is a crucial part of the washing machine.
    滚筒是洗衣机必不可少的部分。
  3. We have succeeded in one crucial regard: making this scandal public.
    我们办成了一件大事: 将这件丑事公之於众.


crucial
[ adj ]
  1. of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis

    2. <adj.all>
    a crucial moment in his career
    a crucial election
    a crucial issue for women
  2. having crucial relevance

    3. <adj.all>
    crucial to the case
    relevant testimony
  3. of the greatest importance

    4. <adj.all>
    the all-important subject of disarmament
    crucial information
    in chess cool nerves are of the essence


Crucial \Cru"cial\ (kr?"shal), a. [F. crucial, fr. L. crux,
crucis, cross, torture. See {Cross}.]
1. Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross;
cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial
incision.

2. Severe; trying or searching, as if bringing to the cross;
decisive; as, a crucial test.

  1. Although economic growth is most crucial for the black majority, in the long run the white minority's own freedoms also depend on South Africa's economic survival.
  2. The Soviet Union, for its part, seems at present prepared to reduce these weapons only in exchange for cuts in the numbers of the newly crucial NATO combat aircraft.
  3. At GE's $5 billion-a-year plastics division here, officials say manufacture of recyclable plastic resins will be crucial to long-term success.
  4. Yet it's crucial jargon because the civil-rights lobby has based its entire strategy on the courts.
  5. But Washington thinks the issue is so crucial that an added impetus is needed.
  6. "This is a small but crucial step to treating a whole array of genetic diseases," said Dr. R. Michael Blaese, another cancer institute researcher on the project.
  7. The summer London sales are crucial for the auction houses, and for dealers, because they represent the "bread and butter" sales of midrange paintings and sculpture.
  8. Few aspects of modern life are so crucial and yet so taken for granted as words on the printed page.
  9. Polls show they have lost crucial support to the environmentalist Greens.
  10. For the crucial Christmas season, however, the company's strategy of expanding inventories to avoid disappointing customers could cause problems.
  11. Republican Dan Heath and Democrat Jill Long campaigned at daybreak today, meeting voters in coffee shops in efforts that could prove crucial given an expected turnout of as low as one-third of the district's more than 200,000 voters.
  12. "Consumers just aren't spending, and the month of December is obviously a very crucial month for the company," said Michael M. Via, an analyst at Anderson & Strudwick in Richmond, Va.
  13. "There are ballot propositions on issues from gun control to the size of cow stalls, and yes, everyone of these choices is vital, every one is crucial.
  14. Mazowiecki told a news conference that "Polish-Soviet relations are at their most crucial moment." He said there are many problems, but one of the biggest is economic collaboration.
  15. In the next five weeks, the crucial bargains must be struck if the future of Maastricht is to be settled.
  16. The state has a crucial role in providing the necessary environment for such networks to thrive: not least, an educated and flexible workforce and sound public infrastructure.
  17. The U.N. Security Council plan is considered crucial because it represents agreement on the part of powers that back different sides in the conflict.
  18. He blames the end of fixed rate mortgages, a crucial marketing tool in a time of low economic confidence.
  19. "We now understand as never before that the pocketbook issues are crucial," said GOP Rep. Henry Hyde of Illinois.
  20. The coal strikes over the summer paralyzed much of the crucial coal industry and ended only after the government conceded to virtually all the miners' demands.
  21. The question is how far the U.S. Federal Reserve Board will open the money throttle now, which will be crucial to the economy's vigor at midyear.
  22. But private investors who may be comparing the relative merits of investment and unit trusts with the same investment remit do need to be aware of this crucial difference.
  23. The New York thing almost locks it up for Dukakis, or comes close to it." Celeste said a crucial battle looms June 7 in California, where he noted that a Democratic front-runner has not won a primary since 1972.
  24. Their inability to reconcile the doctrines laid down in his name with the requirements of France and Europe after the end of the cold war represents a crucial political handicap for the right.
  25. In testimony earlier Friday, Peri's commander said the information Peri gave East Germany was crucial and concerned the Army's electronic defense capabilities.
  26. The death of Teamsters President Jackie Presser will speed up a battle for leadership of the huge union, which is engaged currently in crucial legal and economic struggles.
  27. There has been much argument over the past two decades about the exact merits of "Sesame Street," but none over the crucial role Jim Henson's Muppets played in the television program's phenomenal popularity.
  28. The court's decision could affect insurance, hospital visiting rights, inheritance and other areas in which the definition of "family" is crucial.
  29. But negotiators must settle on the amount of funding for a crucial job-protection program.
  30. Throughout the period there have been crucial moments that pushed us forward in a sudden jump - such as the arrival of certain key players in the orchestra.
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