Watershed:分水岭,转折点
分类: 英语词汇
印度总理辛格率代表团赴海牙,出席11月8日召开的第五届“印度-欧盟峰会”,这次会议对促进印欧关系具有重大意义。外电报道如下:Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be leading a high-powered delegation to The Hague November 8 for the fifth annual India-European Union summit which is being viewed as a watershed in relations between the two sides, India's foreign ministry said Friday.
The summit will endorse the EU's proposal to upgrade its relationship with India to a strategic partnership. The EU has a similar partnership with five other nations - US, Canada, Russia, Japan and China.
Watershed表示“分水岭,转折点”,例如:A watershed in modern American history, a time that . . . forever changed American social attitudes(现代美国历史的转折点,一个…永远改变了美国社会观念的时刻)。