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.
随便看	italian words in english italic type itch itching ears itchy trigger finger it didn’t jell it doesn’t go on all fours i throw a shoe at you it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle it might have been it must have been one of the nuts it rains on the just and unjust alike i trust it-s nothing trivial its it-s a great life if you don’t weaken it-s all in a day-s work it-s all over but the shouting it-s all worth it including the final crash it-s always the best swimmers that drown it-s a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but i think you’ll be amused by its presumptions it-s a new ball game it-s chess not checkers it-s greek to me it-s how you played the game it smells of the lamp

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