a particular point in events or time 时刻;关头;当口 it is difficult to say at this juncture whether this upturn can be sustained. 在这个当口,很难讲这种好转的情况是否会持续不变。 ■a place where things join 交接处; 接合点,接缝,连接,交界 the plane crashed at the juncture of two mountains. 飞机在两座大山的交界处失事了。 ■(Phonetics)the set of features in speech that enable a hearer to detect a word or phrase boundary (e.g. distinguishing I scream from ice cream) (语音)音渡(一组使听者能分辨出单词或词组界限的语音特征,如区分I scream和icecream)
语源
late Middle English (in the sense 'act of joining'): from Latin junctura, 'joint', from jungere 'to join'