zenith

发音

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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

n.

nadir

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。

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