Culmination
[kʌlmɪ'neɪʃ(ə)n] or ['kʌlmə'neʃən]
解释:
(noun.) (astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon.
海丝特编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The attainment of the highest point of altitude reached by a heavently body; passage across the meridian; transit.
(n.) Attainment or arrival at the highest pitch of glory, power, etc.
录入:奥维尔
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Consummation, zenith, acme, meridian, apex, success, completion
ANT:Fall, descent, decline, failure, downfall, degradation, defeat, abortion
校对:利昂
例句:
- This division is a culmination of the dualism of mind and the world, soul and body, end and means, which we have so frequently noted. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- She had reached her culmination: her voice rose trilling and bright over the storm of applause, and soared as high and joyful as her triumph. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- I expected something of a culmination. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Which of us can point out and say that was the culmination--that was the summit of human joy? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Though her eyes were closed, one could easily imagine the light necessarily shining in them as the culmination of the luminous workmanship around. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Those are the antecedents, and the culmination. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
录入:纳丁