conjunctures 

  1. 名詞
conjuncture複數: (多事的)同時發生/
事態, 局面
(一連串的事引起的)危機
緊要關頭, 非常時候

    同義字詞
boiling point,breaking point,clutch,crisis,crossroad(s),crunch,emergency,exigency,extremity,flash point,head,juncture,tinderbox,zero hour

例句

  1. The chapters vary in form and style, reflecting diverse conjunctures and specific occasions of composition.
  2. These conjunctures , just like the tide, carry on their backs the shorter movements of more short-term waves.
  3. Revolution was on the agenda, in the sense that there were conjunctures of objectively revolutionary situations.
  4. "Cases, Causes, Conjunctures , Stories, Imagery." Pp. 205– 16 in What Is a Case? edited by Charles C. Ragin and Howard S. Becker.
  5. There may exist certain critical and tempestuous conjunctures of the State, in which a poll tax may become an inestimable resource.