Zenith
['zenɪθ] or ['zɛnɪθ]
解释:
(noun.) the point above the observer that is directly opposite the nadir on the imaginary sphere against which celestial bodies appear to be projected.
校对:凯特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
(n.) hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Summit, top, apex, pinnacle, acme, utmost height, highest point, culminating point.
埃罗尔校对
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Height, highest_point, pinnacle, acme, summit, culmination, maximum
ANT:Nadir, lowest_point, depth, minimum
弗朗辛校对
解释:
n. that point of the heavens which is exactly overhead—i.e. in line with the spectator's position and the centre of the earth (it is thus the upper pole of the spectator's horizon as the nadir is the under pole): greatest height summit of ambition &c.—adj. Zen′ithal.—ns. Zen′ith-dis′tance the angular distance of a heavenly body from the zenith; Zen′ith-sec′tor an instrument for measuring zenith-distances.
博妮塔校对
娱乐性解释：
To dream of the zenith, foretells elaborate prosperity, and your choice of suitors will be successful.
校对:史蒂文
娱乐性解释：
n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists their opponents Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus the philosopher-king of Abara a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold and Horizontalism took its place among fides defuncti.
编辑:马丁
例句:
- Under him the Ottoman power reached its zenith. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- By 1260 the impulse of Mongol conquest had already passed its zenith. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- With its concavity toward the southern sky it was closely comparable, though reverse, to the celestial meridian throughout its length from horizon to zenith. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The sun passed its zenith, and lingered down the stainless floor of heaven. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- She looked at the sky overhead, and saw that the sapphirine hue of the zenith in spring and early summer had been replaced by a metallic violet. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- It is enough that we remember the close alliance of art, science and politics in Athens, in Florence and Venice at their zenith. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- At her zenith Carthage probably had the hitherto unheard-of population of a million. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Their heads were all reclined, either to the right, or the left; one of their eyes turned inward, and the other directly up to the zenith. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
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