Culminate
['kʌlmɪneɪt] or ['kʌlmɪnet]
解释:
(verb.) rise to, or form, a summit; 'The helmet culminated in a crest'.
(verb.) bring to a head or to the highest point; 'Seurat culminated pointillism'.
(verb.) end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage; 'The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace'.
(verb.) reach the highest altitude or the meridian, of a celestial body.
(verb.) reach the highest or most decisive point.
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解释:
(v. i.) To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.
(v. i.) To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power, numbers, etc.
(a.) Growing upward, as distinguished from a lateral growth; -- applied to the growth of corals.
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同义词及近义词:
v. n. [1]. Be on the meridian.[2]. Reach the highest point, be at the highest point.
格罗夫斯整理
解释:
v.i. (astron.) to be vertical or at the highest point of altitude: to reach the highest point (with in).—adj. Cul′minant at its highest point.—n. Culminā′tion act of culminating: the top: (astron.) transit of a body across the meridian or highest point for the day.
录入:门罗
例句:
- Upon the philosophical side, these various dualisms culminate in a sharp demarcation of individual minds from the world, and hence from one another. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It was the final and culminating grace of a mature experience of life. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Here we do but mention them as details in the worried life of this culminating emperor. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- And so on to the culminating moral, that the highest pay, the utmost importance, the freest expenditure, must be allowed to military gentlemen. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- When he had said it, he took a culminating pinch of snuff, and put his box in his pocket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- The plot was but thickening; the wonder but culminating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The name of Averroes (Ibn-rushd) of Cordoba (1126-1198), stands out as that of the culminating influence of Arab philosophy upon European thought. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The renascence of China that began with Suy and culminated in Tang was, Mr. Fu insists, a real new birth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was as though all the weariness of the past months had culminated in the vacuity of that interminable evening. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Then, because he was dissatisfied with it, he stopped the sales and commenced a new line of investigation, which has recently culminated successfully. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- By 1711 in Italy, under the inventive genius of Bartolommeo Cristofori of Florence, they had culminated in the modern piano. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- There was much buzzing and preparation for a long time previously, and it culminated in a wild excitement at the appointed time. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The Age of Mammals culminated in ice and hardship and man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It commenced there in the seventeenth and culminated in the nineteenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
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