peak是什么意思_peak怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development;"his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"
"the artist"s gifts are at their acme"
"at the height of her career"
"the peak of perfection"
"summer was at its peak"
"...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"
"the summit of his ambition"
"so many highest superlatives achieved by man"
"at the top of his profession"

the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill);"the view from the peak was magnificent"
"they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"
"the region is a few molecules wide at the summit"

a V shape;"the cannibal"s teeth were filed to sharp points"

the highest point (of something);"at the peak of the pyramid"

a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes;"he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"

Verb:

to reach the highest point; attain maximum intensity, activity;"That wild, speculative spirit peaked in 1929"
"Bids for the painting topped out at $50 million"

中英词源

peak 山顶，顶锋，峰值

来自pike变体，由长矛引申词义山峰，山顶，顶锋，峰值等。

peak: peak: [16] Peak seems to come ultimately from the noun pick ‘pointed implement’ (as in toothpick). From this in the 15th century was formed an adjective picked ‘pointed’, which survived dialectally into the 19th century (S H A Hervey noted in the Wedmore Chronicle 1887 ‘Children still use ‘picked’ of a pencil with a good point to it’). It had a variant form peaked, from which peak appears to have been derived as a back-formation. The adjective peaky ‘sickly’ [19], incidentally, is not etymologically related. It comes from a now little used verb peak ‘become sickly or pale’ [16], whose origins are unknown.
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peak (n.): "pointed top," 1520s, variant of pike (n.4) "sharp point." Meaning "top of a mountain" first recorded 1630s, though pike was used in this sense c. 1400. Figurative sense is 1784. Meaning "point formed by hair on the forehead" is from 1833. According to OED, The Peak in Derbyshire is older than the word for "mountaintop;" compare Old English Peaclond, for the district, Pecsaetan, for the people who settled there, Peaces ærs for Peak Cavern; sometimes said to be a reference to an elf-denizen Peac "Puck."
peak (v.): 1570s, "to rise in a peak," from peak (n.). Figurative meaning "reach highest point" first recorded 1958. Related: peaked; peaking.

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词态变化

复数 peaks;
第三人称单数 peaks;
过去式 peaked;
现在分词 peaking;

权威造句

1. The news programme goes out four times a week at peak time.: 这档新闻节目每周在黄金时段播出4次。

2. Calls cost 36p (cheap rate) and 48p (peak rate) per minute.: 电话每分钟36便士（优惠费率）和48便士（高峰费率）。

3. The first episode occupies a peak evening viewing slot.: 第一集占据了傍晚的一个黄金收视时段。

4. American art reached a peak of creativity in the "50s and 60s.: 美国艺术在五六十年代达到了一次创作顶峰。

5. The man touched the peak of his cap.: 那名男子摸了摸他的帽舌。

近反义词

climax

point

top

相似短语

at the peak of 在…的高峰时期

peak to peak 由极大到极小

peak peak detector 峰-峰检波器

peak peak load 高峰最大载荷

asymmetrical peak dissymmetric peak 不对称峰

peak to peak voltage 峰间电压，正负峰间电压

peak to peak amplitude 倍幅，正负峰间幅值，峰-峰幅度，峰-峰振幅，峰峰幅度，峰间幅值

peak to peak current 峰间电流

peak to peak voltmeter 【电】峰至峰伏计

absorption peak 吸收峰，吸收峰值

单词分析

这些名词均含有“山”之意。
hill通常指小的土山、石山或浅丘。有时也指高山，复数表群山。
mount常用于地名之前，即一般放在专用名词前，书面用词。
mountain通常指比hill高而陡的高山、山岳。但这种区别不是绝对的，“大”与“小”常常是相对而言。
range形成的山脉或岭。
peak指山峰，也可指山顶。
volcano特指主要由喷出的熔岩和火山灰堆积而成的圆锥形火山。

记忆方法

1. pike => peak.
2. pike => pick => toothpick => peak.

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