- 1癥結、關鍵所在。
The crux is the most important part of a problem, a question, or an argument — the point everything else turns on. If you miss the crux, you can talk for an hour and still not touch what matters. People say the crux of the matter or the crux of the problem. It is a slightly formal, word; in everyday talk a student might say the main point or the real problem instead. Though actually, English borrowed it from Latin, where crux meant a cross, the wooden frame used to kill people. The idea is that a hard question pins you the way a cross pins a body: you cannot slip round it. Scientists also use Crux as the name of a small group of stars, the Southern Cross, but that is a name, not this sense. Here we mean the heart of a difficulty.
組成Borrowed from Latin crux, a cross or wooden frame for execution, possibly from an old root meaning to turn or bend. It is a doublet of cross (and of an old word crouch meaning cross).
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Cruxname/kɹʌks/
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astronomynatural-sciencesA distinctive winter constellation of the southern sky, shaped like a cross. It appears in the flags of several countries in Oceania.
cruxnoun/kɹʌks/
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The basic, central, or essential point or feature.
- The crux of her argument was that the roadways needed repair before anything else could be accomplished.
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The critical or transitional moment or issue, a turning point.
- The mad certitude of the ogre, Abel Tiffauges, that he stands at the crux of history and that he will be able to raise Prussia "to a higher power" (p. 180), contrasts sharply with the anxiety and doubt attendant upon most modern literary dreams.
- The movie hits its dramatic crux an hour in, when Reality [Winner], at work at the contractor’s facility in Georgia, discovers what she deems a tragic scandal.
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A puzzle or difficulty.
- What I have advanced upon this species of verse will contribute to solve a poetical problem, thrown out by Dryden as a crux to his brethren
- The perpetual crux of New Testament chronologists.
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climbinghobbieslifestyleThe hardest point of a climb.
- the real crux of the climb was encountered
- The final half-mile was the crux of the climb.
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governmentheraldryhobbiesA cross on a coat of arms.
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