a particular point in events or time
(事态发展的)关头;当口
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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能保持下去。
a place where things join
交接处; 接合点, 接缝, 连接, 交界
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the plane crashed at the juncture of two mountains .飞机在两座大山的交界处失事了。
【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ice cream)。
"late Middle English (in the sense ‘act of joining’): from Latin