Tipping Point

Advanced batteries are moving out of specialized markets and creeping into the mainstream, signaling a tipping point for forward-looking technologies such as electric cars and rooftop solar panels.

先进的电池步出专业市场，潜入主流，标志着电动汽车和屋顶太阳能电池板等前瞻性技术达到了引爆点。

in the tipping point, the idea was that discontinuities arise from network effects.

《引爆点》阐述了突变点产生于网络效应。

Another possibility is that China's policies to promote electric vehicles have finally reached a tipping point.

另一种可能是中国对电动汽车的扶植政策终于达到了临界点。

but where is that tipping point?

但哪里是临界点？

we are at the tipping point.

我们正处于转折点上。

policymakers have come to understand this tipping point and try to act long before it is reached.

决策者已认识到了这一临界点，并试图在触及该临界点之前尽早采取行动。

many believe digitalisation will push traditional media1 to the tipping point in the near future.

比如，科学家们会使用这个概念来谈论气象学、社会学和经济学相关的现象。例句很多人认为，在不久的将来，数码化会把传统媒体推向一个转折点。

soccer may have already passed a cultural tipping point here.

足球可能已经跨过了文化临界点。

it promises to be a technological tipping point to bring desktop application capabilities to the browser.

它有望成为一个技术引爆点，将桌面应用程序功能引向浏览器。

Lei Jun: AI will be the next technological tipping point of internet economy

雷军：人工智能是互联网经济的下个引爆点

after the tipping point, the glitches in memory, language and cognition are different.

在临界点之后，记忆、语言和认知的偏差是不一样的。

the case has not been made for any specific tipping point, he says.

他说：任何具体的临界点都尚未找到充分的理由。

the tipping point is inherently impossible to forecast.

临界时刻何时到来根本无法预测。

a more sophisticated approach suggests it would be prudent to act before this tipping point is reached.

一个更加复杂的方法提示，在这个转折点到来之前，行动是谨慎的。

right now we are nearing that tipping point.

现在，我们即将接近这一临界点。

and when the tipping point is reached, it's going to be a giant market.

一旦到了引爆点，我们将迎来一片十分广阔的市场。

world health officials talk about reaching the tipping point.

卫生组织的官员谈到要达到一个临界点。

it may well have been the tipping point.

它很可能是一个转折点。

a very very big tipping point. i'm gonna come back to that.

的转折点，一个非常大的转折点，我之后会说到这个。

but the tipping point is reflexive and therefore indeterminate.

但这个引爆点具有自反性，因此并不确定。

For me, however, it was a tipping point.

但是对我来说，它无论如何都是一个转折点。

Year 2008 could be regarded as the tipping point of Mobile Internet industry in China.

2008年可以说是中国移动互联网的元年。

With falling vehicle prices, the ratio could reach 1.0 by 2015, approaching a possible tipping point in vehicle demand.

随着车价下降，2015年该比率可能会达到1.0倍，接近可能的汽车需求拐点。

but has 3-d printing really reached its tipping point?

不过，3D打印真的已经到了发展的引爆点吗？

when do you think the tipping point will come for streaming games?

但对流媒体游戏来说，您认为转折点何时才会到来？

Is Earth Hour going to become such a tipping point, or the movement's defining image?

“世界一小时”是会变成一个众人瞩目的事件还是一次作为定义的影像？

The tipping point seems to be about 30 per cent.

能产生重大变化的数字似乎是30%左右.

and so there are things we can do to keep us from reaching that tipping point.

我们可以做许多小事来避免达到临界点。

My belief is that it's because it has been building toward a tipping point.

我觉得这是因为它到了一个临界点。

Now, a tipping point has arrived.

现在，扭转乾坤的时机到了。