| 单词 | pivotal |
| 释义 | pivotal adjective uk/ˈpɪv.ə.təl/us/ˈpɪv.ə.t̬əl/centralandimportant: 关键性的，核心的a pivotalfigure/role/idea关键人物／角色／想法 Very important or urgent
pivotal| American Dictionarypivotal adjective[not gradable] us/ˈpɪv·ə·t̬əl/importantbecause other thingsdependon it: Sheplayeda pivotalrolein thecivilrightsmovement. pivotal| Business Englishpivotal adjective uk/ˈpɪvətəl/usif something is pivotal, it is veryimportantbecause other thingsdependon it: a pivotal moment/pointThespeechmarkeda pivotalmomentin theWorldBank'shistory. Becauseimmigrantsdojobsthat manypeopledo notwantto do, theyplaya pivotalrolein theeconomy. Examplesofpivotalpivotal These trials are "pivotal" trials in which the doses and formulations to be marketing are tested for efficacy. From theCambridge English Corpus Here, as elsewhere, thepivotalnotion is choice - and, more particularly, rational choice, positioned as the essence of human action. From theCambridge English Corpus This leaves the remaining two types of voters aspivotal. From theCambridge English Corpus And courts know the difference between disputes concerning political legitimacy andpivotaldisputes concerning the criteria of legal validity. From theCambridge English Corpus If the party is notpivotal, we assume that it votes sincerely. From theCambridge English Corpus The marginalised subject-position of the woman, however, reveals thepivotalrole of the feminine in the narcissistic constructions of male desire and the male self. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, it was apivotalmoment common to the agrarian and solar year cycles. From theCambridge English Corpus Memorable and layered, it may provepivotalin the context of his output so far. From theCambridge English Corpus And he addresses macroscopic questions which arepivotalto our understanding of both economic history and the nature of market-state relations. From theCambridge English Corpus Thepivotalconsideration that permits essentially unobservable items to be observed is that things need not appear as they essentially are. From theCambridge English Corpus The project co-ordinator played apivotalrole in the establishment and maintenance of the research network. From theCambridge English Corpus Apivotalbank function, therefore, is to intermediate between savers who demand complete liquidity and borrowers who require non-marketable loans. From theCambridge English Corpus Ontologies promise to play apivotalrole for different semantic-based and semantic-aware applications. From theCambridge English Corpus It is apivotalpart of emotional recovery in the face of traumatic illness. From theCambridge English Corpus The other set of four-party decisive structures involves all four parties beingpivotal. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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