zenith
发音
英 [ˈzenɪθ]
美 [ˈzinɪθ]
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- n.
- 顶点， 极点
单词词源
zenith 天顶，鼎盛时期
来自中世纪拉丁语senit,来自阿拉伯语samt,路，通道，词源同azimuth,缩写自samt ar-ras,位于头顶的道路，ras,头。而该词最终又来自早期拉丁语semita,旁路，边路，se-,分开，mita-,改变，词源同mutual,由罗马人占据叙利亚时传入，后来罗马人离开，公元7世纪左右阿拉伯人又征服了叙利亚，该词又传入阿拉伯，最终又在公元14世纪进入了拉丁语。
反义词
双语例句
- 1. The battle of agincourt marks the zenith of mediaeval longbow technology .
- 阿金库尔战役标志着中世纪长弓技术的顶峰。
- 2. Many early evolutionary biologists ( though not darwin himself ) thought that just as man was a risen ape , so white , european man was the zenith of humanity , and that people from other parts of the world were necessarily inferior .
- 很多早期的达尔文主义生物学家（然而不是达尔文本人）认为，正如人是进化的猿，因此白人、欧洲人也是人类进化的顶点，并且认为，这个世界的其他部分的人必然是低等的。
- 3. Their astronomical system was thus closely associated with the concept of the meridian ( the great circle of the celestial sphere passing through the pole star and the observer 's zenith ) , and they determined systematically the culminations and lower transits ( meridian passages ) of these circumpolar stars .
- 因此，他们的天文学体系与子午线（天球绕过北极星和观测者的天顶产生的大圆弧）的概念有密切联系，系统化地决定了拱极星的中天和下中天（中天）。
- 4. Victoria lent her name to the victorian era , a time when the united kingdom 's power was at its zenith .
- 在以其名命名的维多利亚时代，日不落帝国的力量发展到了顶峰。
- 5. The popular conviction that fires are an unqualified evil reached its zenith after a third of yellowstone park in the us was destroyed by fire in 1988 .
- 火是彻头彻尾的祸害，这种普遍看法在1988年美国黄石公园有三分之一被烧毁后达到了顶峰。