crisis
/ˈkɹaɪsɪs/ sustantivo B1En español: crisis
- A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
- An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
- A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
- A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life. · I'm having a major crisis trying to wallpaper the living room.
- A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.
- Orgasm
Plural crises
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“Well now, she shouldn’t have taken the brooch, Marilla, or told stories about it,” he admitted, mournfully surveying his plateful of unromantic pork and greens as if he, like Anne, thought it a food unsuited to crises of feeling, “but she’s such a little thing--such an interesting little thing.
“You come at a crisis, Watson,” said he.
I have already explained to you, however, that my career had in any case reached its crisis, and that no possible conclusion to it could be more congenial to me than this.
Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play.
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