defining moment

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That was what you might call my defining moment.
你可以把那段时间叫做我的决定性时刻。
And I know that at this defining moment for America we have a responsibility to ourselves and to our children to do it once again.
我知道，目前对于美国来说是一个决定性的时刻，我们要再次肩负起我们对自己的责任，对孩子们的责任。
George Osborne, shadow chancellor, dubbed it "a defining moment in the record of Gordon Brown" and said millions of British families were "in for a very difficult time in the months ahead".
影子财政大臣乔治·奥斯本称这是“戈登·布朗执政记录中的决定性时刻”，并说数百万的英国家庭“在未来数月将处于非常困难的境地”。

Agha Saeed,a California State University political scientist and founder of the Pakistan American National Alliance, an organization of six Pakistani-American groups, called the planned demonstration sha defining moment for Pakistan.
That's really the defining moment in absolute rule.
那真的是绝对主义［确立］的决定性时刻
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Which is the one that's the crucial for defining the moment of death,right?
那个才是定义死亡事件的关键？
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"This is a defining moment for ISE, " Krell said during a conference call Wednesday.
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