英语词汇crucial的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	crucial
词源	crucial. In the sense of decisive, or of supreme importance, crucial comes from Francis Bacon’s phrase instantia crucis, Lat- in for being present at the cross, which he used metaphorically for coming to a crossroads signpost or guidepost where a trave- ler has to continue one way or another. Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle later patterned their experimentum crucis, crucial experiment, on Bacon’s phrase.
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