如何有逼格的表达"important"?
时间:2017-04-19 04:04:36
(单词翻译:单击)
sine qua non
解释
这个词字面上解释“Without which, not.”。也就是说“Without(A),(X)won’t be possible.”没有A的话X是不可能的,自然就可以理解成A是X的前提或者A对于X至关重要。
不同来源的例句
A solid customer base is the sine qua non to success.
坚实的客户基础对于成功很重要。
A good agent is a sine qua non for an actor’s career.
一个好的经纪人对于演员的职业生涯至关重要。
His support was really the sine qua non for her candidacy.
他的支持对于她的候选人资格真的十分重要。
From: Merriam-Webster’s Vocabulary Builder
That is depressing for those who seek Martians, even
bacterial1 ones, for most biologists agree that liquid water is a sine qua non of life.
对于那些寻找来自火星的哪怕是细菌生物的人来说,那是令人沮丧的。因为大部分生物学家都会同意水是生命之源。
Permits became sine qua non, but in poorer countries the environment
ministries2 that were expected to issue them did not always exist.
许可证变得尤为关键,但是在贫穷的国家,本应该颁发这些证件的环保部门并不存在。
There is, though, one thing these two
founders4 are missing, and it is almost the sine qua non of the
fabled5 Silicon6 Valley startup.
两个创始人忽视了一个东西,而它对于传说中的硅谷的创业公司非常重要。
From: Newsweek
The control of inflation is a sine qua non for economic stability.
控制通货膨胀是经济稳定的前提。
From: Longman Dictionary
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