Height
[haɪt]
解释:
(noun.) the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top.
校对:惠特尼--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The condition of being high; elevated position.
(n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature.
(n.) Degree of latitude either north or south.
(n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
(n.) Elevation in excellence of any kind, as in power, learning, arts; also, an advanced degree of social rank; preeminence or distinction in society; prominence.
(n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.
(n.) Utmost degree in extent; extreme limit of energy or condition; as, the height of a fever, of passion, of madness, of folly; the height of a tempest.
录入:朱莉
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Elevation, altitude, TALLNESS.[2]. Eminence, summit, apex, acme, culminating point.[3]. Hill, mountain, high ground.[4]. Utmost degree.
珍宁校对
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Altitude, elevation, tallness, summit, exaltation, culmination, top, apex,climax, acme, crisis
ANT:Depth, lowness, depression, littleness, base, abasement
录入:赖安
解释:
n. the condition of being high: distance upwards: that which is elevated: a hill: elevation in rank or excellence: utmost degree.—v.t. Height′en to make higher to advance or improve: to make brighter or more prominent.
哈里森校对
例句:
- It was afterwards gradually raised by hydraulic presses to the top, a height of 100 feet. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- It had not got to this height in any part of Scotland before the Union. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- But in the height of the confusion, a mounted man galloped away to order the relays, and our horses were put to with great speed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- When you come to think of it, it's the height of childishness in you--I mean me-- said Mr. Jarndyce, to regard him for a moment as a man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- By seven o'clock the whole of Smith's force was ferried over and in possession of a height commanding the ferry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- They ranged in height from three to four feet, and were moving restlessly about the enclosure as though searching for food. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- There are some trees, Watson, which grow to a certain height, and then suddenly develop some unsightly eccentricity. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- If the leak is quite low, as at _c_, the issuing stream has a still greater speed and strength, and gushes forth with a force determined by the height of the water above _c_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The height to which the water can be forced in the pipe depends upon the size and construction of the pump and upon the force with which the plunger can be moved. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Indeed it would be the height of unreason to expect him to be sitting there without that head. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- At the Cape Verde Islands he made some interesting observations of a white calcareous stratum which ran for miles along the coast at a height of a) bout forty-five feet above the water. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The height of the leveling strips, plus the height of the bed, lift its surface about six inches from the foundation floor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The metal casting of each page is very thin, and when required to be used, it is screwed on to blocks of wood to the same height as ordinary types. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Along this whole space of the Cordillera true glaciers do not now exist even at much more considerable heights. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- In falling from different heights toward this commo n focus the particles cannot have such perfect equality of resistance that no la teral movements should be set up. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- He turned from his new position and captured the forts on both heights in that quarter. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- As no ladders could reach the great heights, the men swung themselves down from balustrades and the capitals of pilasters by ropes, to do this work. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Twenty were exposed to the air on the heights of the Jura at an altitude of eight hundred and fift y meters above sea-level; the contents of five of these subsequently putrefied. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- From the shining heights she has scaled and taken, she is never absent. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Amazing heights of upright grandeur. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- It was the beginning of the electric-light furor which soon rose to sensational heights. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Mr. Thornton, above all people, on whom she had looked down from her imaginary heights till now! 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- To be convinced of this we need only consider the influence of heights and depths on that faculty. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- The road to Saltillo leaves the upper or western end of the city under the fire of the guns from these heights. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- She would ramble to the most unfrequented places, and scale dangerous heights, that in those unvisited spots she might wrap herself in loneliness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- While it seems a pity to destroy this erroneous idea, suggestive of a heroic climb from the depths to the heights, nothing could be further from the truth. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
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