defining moment

音標(biāo)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(fù)起我們對自己的責(zé)任，對孩子們的責(zé)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(guān)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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