defining moment

音標發(fā)音

That was what you might call my defining moment.
你可以把那段時間叫做我的決定性時刻。
And I know that at this defining moment for America we have a responsibility to ourselves and to our children to do it once again.
我知道，目前對于美國來說是一個決定性的時刻，我們要再次肩負起我們對自己的責任，對孩子們的責任。
George Osborne, shadow chancellor, dubbed it "a defining moment in the record of Gordon Brown" and said millions of British families were "in for a very difficult time in the months ahead".
影子財政大臣喬治·奧斯本稱這是“戈登·布朗執(zhí)政記錄中的決定性時刻”，并說數(shù)百萬的英國家庭“在未來數(shù)月將處于非常困難的境地”。

Agha Saeed,a California State University political scientist and founder of the Pakistan American National Alliance, an organization of six Pakistani-American groups, called the planned demonstration sha defining moment for Pakistan.
That's really the defining moment in absolute rule.
那真的是絕對主義［確立］的決定性時刻
耶魯公開課 - 歐洲文明課程節(jié)選
Which is the one that's the crucial for defining the moment of death,right?
那個才是定義死亡事件的關鍵？
耶魯公開課 - 死亡課程節(jié)選

"This is a defining moment for ISE, " Krell said during a conference call Wednesday.
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