crisis

PIE*krei, 区分，筛选，词源同crime, critic. 进一步来自PIE*sker, 砍，劈，词源同shear,carnal. 引申义区分，选择，危机。

crisis (n.)

early 15c., from Latinized form of Greek krisis "turning point in a disease" (used as such by Hippocrates and Galen), literally "judgment, result of a trial, selection," from krinein "to separate, decide, judge," from PIE root *krei- "to sieve, discriminate, distinguish" (cognates: Greek krinesthai "to explain;" Old English hriddel "sieve;" Latin cribrum "sieve," crimen "judgment, crime," cernere (past participle cretus) "to sift, separate;" Old Irish criathar, Old Welsh cruitr "sieve;" Middle Irish crich "border, boundary"). Transferred non-medical sense is 1620s in English. A German term for "mid-life crisis" is Torschlusspanik, literally "shut-door-panic," fear of being on the wrong side of a closing gate.

1. The Kremlin is still insisting on a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

俄罗斯中央政府依然坚持通过外交方式解决危机。

2. An end to the crisis seems a long way off.

这场危机看来远未结束。

3. The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis.

政府正采取紧急措施解决住房危机。

4. The Government is doing nothing to intervene in the crisis.

政府没有采取任何行动对这次危机进行干预。

5. The state government has lurched from one budget crisis to another.

州政府陷入一个又一个的预算危机。