culminate
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英語
[編輯]詞源
[編輯]自1647年起可考,源自中世紀拉丁語 culminatus,culminare (「給...加冕」)的過去分詞,源自拉丁語 culmen (「頂點」),早期形式columen (「頂峰」),源自原始意大利語 *kolamen,源自原始印歐語詞根*kol-, *kelH- (「展現;頂」),其亦派生出英語 hill和holm。
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[編輯]動詞
[編輯]culminate (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 culminates,現在分詞 culminating,一般過去時及過去分詞 culminated)
- (不及物,天文學,指天體) 達到最高點
- (不及物) 登頂,達到頂峰 (可指物理上的頂峰,也可指比喻義)
- 近義詞:peak
- 1667, John Milton, 「Book 3」, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- As when his beams at noon / Culminate from the equator.
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- 1875, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology:
- The type of Cycads culminated in the Mesozoic
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- 2019 October, Tony Miles and Philip Sherratt, 「EMR kicks off new era」, 出自 Modern Railways,第 53 頁:
- This culminates in a timetable change in December 2020, at which point EMR will introduce a sixth train each hour out of St Pancras.
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- (不及物,比喻義) 達到高潮,達到關鍵點,(尤指)結果,告終,收場
- Their messy breakup culminated in a restraining order.
- 他們鬧的一場分手最後以限制令收場。
- The class will culminate with a rigorous examination.
- 這堂課最後會有一場嚴格的考試。
- (美國,軍事,指進攻) 停滯,不再取得突破
- 2014年8月15日, Major Kevin R. Kilbride, Military Assistance Advisory Group-Vietnam (1954-1963): The Battle Of Ap Bac, Pickle Partners Publishing, →ISBN:
- Approaching from the south on foot, elements of the CG battalion were first to come into contact and their attack culminated because the rate and accuracy of the VC small arms fire. The CG battalions attempted two assaults to penetrate […]
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- 2014年8月15日, Major Bryan L. Woodcock, 91st Infantry In World War I--Analysis Of An AEF Division's Efforts To Achieve Battlefield Success [Illustrated Edition], Pickle Partners Publishing, →ISBN,第 33 頁:
- As a result, the attack culminated the first day without additional artillery support. The towns of Eclisfontaine and Epinonville were not held on the first day as originally directed in the Corps plan.
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- (及物) 以...告終,以...收場
- 2010年9月7日, 「By the skin of her teeth」, 出自 The Economist:
- The announcement by Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott in Canberra culminated more than a fortnight of intensive political horse-trading.
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[編輯]culminate (無比較級)
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[編輯]延伸閱讀
[編輯]- 「culminate」,Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913年,OCLC 800618302
- 「culminate」,The Century Dictionary […],New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,1911,OCLC 867766587
意大利語
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[編輯]culminate
西班牙語
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[編輯]culminate