Climax
['klaɪmæks]
解释:
(noun.) the decisive moment in a novel or play; 'the deathbed scene is the climax of the play'.
(noun.) arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness.
(noun.) the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding; 'the climax of the artist's career'; 'in the flood tide of his success'.
(noun.) the most severe stage of a disease.
录入:梅林达--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
(v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
(v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.
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同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. (Rhet.) Gradation (in the structure of sentences), gradual rise.[2]. Highest point, greatest degree.
手打:罗谢尔
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Summit, height, consummation, acme, point, head, mered, ian, culmination,zenith
ANT:Base, floor, bathos, anticlimax, depth, gulf, nadir
编辑:谢尔顿
解释:
n. (rhet.) the arranging of the particulars of a portion of a discourse so as to rise in strength to the last: the last term of the rhetorical arrangement: a culmination.—v.i. to ascend in a climax: to culminate.—adjs. Climact′ic -al pertaining to a climax.—adv. Climact′ically.
编辑:曼纽尔
例句:
- He went on to Persepolis, where, as the climax of a drunken carouse, he burnt down the great palace of the king of kings. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Indeed, the period seems a grand climax of discovery, rather than an increment of growth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- For some minutes we both paused on this climax. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We are too apt to consider the career of Alexander as the crown of some process that had long been afoot; as the climax of a crescendo. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Distress reached its climax. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Being heated when he arrived at this climax, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown stopped. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Caillaux, the minister of finance, brought these to a climax in March; Britain, all Germany was assured, was on the verge of a civil war in Ireland. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
编辑:谢恩