"我们尽可能久地呆下去，" 他说道： "当关键时刻到来时，我们真不愿离开，真的，可是又别无选择。" "We stayed as long as we could, " he said. "When the crunch came we were ever so reluctant to pull out, we really were, but there was no alternative."
他在关键时刻勇於坚持到底。 When the chips were down he found the courage to carry on.
这一项目的成败目前仍处於关键时刻。 The success of the project is still very much on a knife-edge.
