climax
climax 英 [ˈklaɪmæks] 美 [ˈklaɪˌmæks]
n. 高潮；顶点
进行时:climaxing 过去式:climaxed 过去分词:climaxed 第三人称单数:climaxes 名词复数:climaxes
- When something — like a movie or piece of music — reaches its most important or exciting part, that's the climax. A climax is a high point.
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- n. 高潮；顶点
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1. to come to a climax, to come reach a climax
达到极点
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2. the climax of his political career
他政治生涯的巅峰
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3. The festival will climax on Sunday with a gala concert.
星期天的音乐盛会将把这个节日推向高潮。
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4. The fifth scene was the climax of the play.
第五场是全剧的高潮。
- 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 suffixed form of PIE root *klei- "to lean."
- climax (v.) 1835, "to reach the highest point, culminate," from climax (n.). For erotic sense, see the noun. Related: Climaxed; climaxing.
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