英语词汇crisis的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

crisis. Crisis, strictly speaking, means “the ability to judge,” deriving from the Greek krinein, “to decide or determine.” In ancient times physicians believed that “the humours of the body ebbed and flowed like the tides of the sea.” Brewer notes that Hippocrates called these tidal days critical days and called the tide itself a crisis, “because it was on these days that the physician could determine whether the disorder was taking a good or bad turn.” From this original use the word crisis took on its present meaning of “a turning point.”

词汇	crisis
词源	crisis. Crisis, strictly speaking, means “the ability to judge,” deriving from the Greek krinein, “to decide or determine.” In ancient times physicians believed that “the humours of the body ebbed and flowed like the tides of the sea.” Brewer notes that Hippocrates called these tidal days critical days and called the tide itself a crisis, “because it was on these days that the physician could determine whether the disorder was taking a good or bad turn.” From this original use the word crisis took on its present meaning of “a turning point.”
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