turning-point

基本解释

This could even prove a turning-point.
这甚至可以证明一个转折点。
But it is too early to conclude that the fall marks a turning-point.
然而，死亡人数的下降是缉毒战转折点的说法还为时尚早。
Mr Cai believes China has already reached this “Lewisian turning-point” and that its arrival can be seen in more assertive workers and wage rises.
蔡先生认为，中国已经达到了这个“刘易斯转折点”，它的到来可以见证于更自信工人和工资上升方面。

The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.
I don't know if the news media are concluding anything, but you do see--we have seen-over recent years, we've seen a lot of suggestions that the turning point is just around the corner and the news media report that.
我不知道媒体是否的出过什么结论，但是我们也看到了，近年来，我们见证了很多改革建议,经济的转折点马上就要来到,媒体是这么报道的。
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The state and congressional elections of eighteen seventy-four were an important turning point.

Was the encounter with America, as some have argued, the turning-point in Qutb's radicalisation?
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A turning point is a time at which an important change takes place which affects the future of a person or thing.

转折点
Mid-80s is Yu Hua’s first turning-point for the publication of his first novel with the significance of avant-guard exploration Leaving Home at 18.
80年代中期可以看作余华第一次飞跃的转折点，这缘于他第一篇有先锋探索意义的小说《十八岁出门远行》的发表。