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Height N Var Weight 例:I Quality 例:At N Sing Intense

单词 height
音标
英[haɪt] 美[haɪt]
解释
n.高度,海拔;高地;身高;绝顶,顶点;
例句

N-VAR
(从底到顶的)身高;高度
The height of a person or thing is their size or length from the bottom to the top.
例:Her weight is about normal for her height...按她的身高,她的体重基本正常。
例:I am 5'6'' in height...我身高5英尺6英寸。

N-UNCOUNT
Height is the quality of being tall.
例:She admits that her height is intimidating for some men.她承认自己的高个头会令有些男人却步。

N-VAR
(距离地面或他物的某一)高度
A particular height is the distance that something is above the ground or above something else mentioned.
例:At the speed and height at which he was moving, he was never more than half a second from disaster.以这样的速度在这么高的地方移动,他离灾难始终只有半步之遥。
例:...a test in which a 6.3 kilogram weight was dropped on it from a height of 1 metre...让6.3公斤的重物从1米高的地方落到它上面的试验

N-COUNT
高处;高地
A height is a high position or place above the ground.
例:From a height, it looks like a desert...从高处看,它像一片沙漠。
例:I'm not afraid of heights.我不恐高。

N-SING
处于顶峰;处于高潮
When an activity, situation, or organization is at its height, it is at its most successful, powerful, or intense.
例:During the early sixth century emigration from Britain to Brittany was at its height...6世纪初,从不列颠涌向布列塔尼的移民潮达到了高峰。
例:At its height Bletchley Park employed 12,000 people...布莱奇利园的雇员数在巅峰时期曾达1.2万人。

N-SING
(某一特性)的极致
If you say that something is the height of a particular quality, you are emphasizing that it has that quality to the greatest degree possible.
例:The hip-hugging black and white polka-dot dress was the height of fashion...黑白圆点花纹的紧身连衣裙当时是最时尚的。
例:I think it's the height of bad manners to be dressed badly...我认为衣着不当是最没有礼貌的行为。

N-PLURAL
极度;极点
If something reaches great heights, it becomes very extreme or intense.
例:...the mid-1980s, when house prices rose to absurd heights...房价高得离谱的20世纪80年代中期
例:Recently the speculation has reached new heights...最近猜测又升级了。
变形
pl:heights~

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