专业词汇|Watershed：分界线，转折点

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备重大意义。外电报道如下：Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be leading a high-powered delegation^{1 to The Hague November 8 for the fifth annual India-European Union summit which is being viewed as a watershed2 in relations between the two sides, India's foreign ministry3 said Friday.}

The summit will endorse^{4 the EU's proposal to upgrade its relationship with India to a strategic partnership5. The EU has a similar partnership with five other nations - US, Canada, Russia, Japan and China.}

Watershed表示分界线，转折点，比如：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）。