climax基本信息
读法：英 ["klaɪmæks] 美 ["klaɪmæks]
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英英释义
Noun:
"in the flood tide of his success"
中英词源
climax 高潮
来自PIE*klei,倾斜，词源同lean,incline.-ax,表示最高级，词源同apex,next,approximate.
- climax
- climax: [16] Etymologically, a climax is a series of steps by which a goal is achieved, but in the late 18th century English, anticipating the culmination, started using it for the goal itself. It comes, via late Latin, from Greek klimax ‘ladder’, which was ultimately from the same source (the Indo-European base *kli-) as produced English lean. This came to be used metaphorically as a rhetorical term for a figure of speech in which a series of statements is arranged in order of increasing forcefulness, and hence for any escalating progression: ‘the top of the climax of their wickedness’, Edmund Burke 1793.
Whence modern English ‘high point’.
=> ladder, lean - climax (n.)
- 1580s, in the rhetorical sense (a chain of reasoning in graduating steps from weaker to stronger), from Late Latin climax (genitive climacis), from Greek klimax "propositions rising in effectiveness," literally "ladder," from root of klinein "to slope," from PIE root *klei- "to lean" (see lean (v.)).
The rhetorical meaning evolved in English through "series of steps by which a goal is achieved," to "escalating steps," to (1789) "high point of intensity or development," a usage credited by the OED to "popular ignorance." The meaning "sexual orgasm" is recorded by 1880 (also in terms such as climax of orgasm), said to have been promoted from c. 1900 by birth-control pioneer Marie Stopes (1880-1958) and others as a more accessible word than orgasm (n.). - climax (v.)
- 1835, "to reach the highest point," from climax (n.). Related: Climaxed; climaxing.
词态变化
第三人称单数 climaxes;
过去式 climaxed;
过去分词 climaxed;
现在分词 climaxing;
权威造句
- 1. For Pritchard, reaching an Olympics was the climax of her career.
- 对普里查德来说，参加奥运会是她事业上的巅峰。
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- 2. The business in hand was approaching some kind of climax.
- 手头的生意似乎快到紧要关头了。
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- 3. Lambing is the climax of the sheep farmer"s year.
- 一年之中，产羔期最令羊农高兴。
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- 4. The climax came one sultry August evening.
- 在8月一个闷热的夜晚，高潮到来了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. The fifth scene was the climax of the play.
- 第五场是全剧的高潮.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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