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n. 高潮；顶点；层进法；极点
n.
顶点，极点；高潮；层进法；[生物学]顶极群落
vt.& vi.
达到顶点；达到巅峰；使达到高潮；使达到性高潮
变形
过去式：climaxed过去分词：climaxed现在分词：climaxing第三人称单数：climaxes
双语释义
n.(名词)[C]顶点,极点peak
[C]高潮 the most interesting and important part
英英释义
climax[ 'klaimæks ]
n.
the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding
"the climax of the artist's career"
同义词：flood tide
the decisive moment in a novel or play
"the deathbed scene is the climax of the play"
同义词：culmination
the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse
同义词：orgasmsexual climaxcoming
the most severe stage of a disease
arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
v.end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
同义词：culminate
词组短语
climax community顶极群落（在不受骚扰的情况下能生长的所有植物）
come to a climax达到顶点(或高潮)
同近义词辨析
peak, sumit, climax, top这组词都有“顶点”的意思，其区别是：
peak指山峰的全部或上部。
sumit书面用词，指山的最顶峰部分，也指通过努力可以达到的最高水平，还指最重要的，国家间的首脑最高级会谈。
climax指戏剧等的高潮，也指事物发展中的极点，因此多含其后由盛而衰的意味。
top普通用词，可指包括人或物或其它任何的最高点或顶点。
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The music approached a climax.
乐曲接近高潮。
The climax of the celebration was a firework display.
庆祝会的高潮是燃放烟火。
The heat of summer has reached its climax.
已经是夏季最热的天气了。
The air war over Europe was reaching its climax.
欧洲的空战已近白热化。
He used climax and word repetition in the speech.
他在演讲中运用了层进法和词句重复。
In some climax communities, there is slow accumulation of net ecosystem production.
某些顶极群落中也存在缓慢积累的净生态系统生产。
权威例句
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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.
1. The meeting came to a climax by the appearance of a general.
将军的出现使会议达到了高潮。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. It looks as if the battle is moving to its climax.
看来好象战事行将达到高潮。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. His election to the presidency was the climax of his career.
他当选为总统是他职业生涯的顶峰。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. "Main Street is the climax of Civilization," he warned in a prefatory note.
“大街就是文明的顶峰，”他在引言性的题词中说。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
5. In some climax communities, there is slow accumulation of net ecosystem production.
某些顶极群落中也存在缓慢积累的净生态系统生产。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. The climax came in May.
5月份，最紧迫的问题发生了。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. The performance of the opera has come to its climax.
歌剧的表演已经到达最高潮了。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. In this life-or-death climax, he showed himself a terrible personality.
在这个生死关头，他表现出一种令人惧怕的性格。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. In the climax of the display the heavens seem on fire.
在最精彩的一幕中，天空好象在燃烧。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. A climax is pending.
高潮即将来到。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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