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 climax ['klaimæks]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 高潮, 极点, 层进法

vt. (使)达到顶点, (使)达到高潮

vi. (使)达到顶点, (使)达到高潮

[医] 极期; 情欲高潮


  1. The climax of the celebration was a firework display.
    庆祝会的高潮是燃放烟火。
  2. The music approached a climax.
    乐曲接近高潮。
  3. The battle approached a climax.
    战争迫近了高峰。


climax
[ noun ]
  1. the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

    2. <noun.event>
    the climax of the artist's career
    in the flood tide of his success
  2. the decisive moment in a novel or play

    3. <noun.communication>
    the deathbed scene is the climax of the play
  3. the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

    4. <noun.act>
  4. the most severe stage of a disease

    5. <noun.state>
  5. arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

    6. <noun.communication>
[ verb ]
  1. end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

    2. <verb.change> culminate
    The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace


Climax \Cli"max\, n. [L., from Gr. ? ladder, staircase, fr. ? to
make to bend, to lean. See {Ladder}, {Lean}, v. i.]
1. Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.
--Glanvill.

2. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or
paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises
above its predecessor in impressiveness.

``Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience,
and experience hope'' -- a happy climax. --J. D.
Forbes.

3. The highest point; the greatest degree.

We must look higher for the climax of earthly good.
--I. Taylor.

{To cap the climax}, to surpass everything, as in excellence
or in absurdity. [Colloq.]

  1. The climax is built with infinite control, over a broader, steadier span, but there seems no loss of coruscating vitality in the fingerwork. Precious pianist, precious experience.
  2. But the rest of the production has been so good that the statue scene is less a dramatic climax than a fitting end.
  3. The Uruguay Round dispute over US demands to dilute the force of multilateral restraints on anti-dumping rules is expected to reach a climax tomorrow.
  4. What the Art Deco moment did achieve, particularly in its more triumphant manifestations in New York, was a sense of stylistic climax, a flash of joy that is rare indeed in architecture and perhaps belongs most of all in the theatre.
  5. The climax of the tale is the revelation of this truth, but tantalising shafts of light are shone into the characters' psyches along the way. Like the Birtwistle, Blond Eckbert is a story of self-discovery.
  6. "Nobody knows nothing about Indiana Jones," says Mohammed Ibraheem Al-Hasanat, a guide to the 2,000-year-old ruins of Petra, where the climax of "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" was filmed with Harrison Ford and Sean Connery.
  7. Otherwise, "he probably wouldn't be the nominee." Dole said he offered his proposal after discussing it with Tower. It came as the Senate neared a climax in its bitter struggle over the nomination.
  8. The songs build to a climax that usually has the leader hitting a high, solid note and then cascading down the keys.
  9. But the climax of Col. Prelin's film debut is when he talks about his hobby.
  10. There was an interlude of slow, ticking harps over menacing rumbles, with florid outbursts for unison strings; the climax lay agonisingly high for the violins.
  11. Philip keeps those two attitudes brilliantly interconnected, so that the play rises to its climax in his final, long dialogue with his wife Jessica.
  12. "This is where German reality is concentrated with all its tensions and dynamism," says Mayor Eberhard Diepgen, who is leading a battle, which reaches its climax today , to bring Germany's government to Berlin.
  13. The climax comes when Martin arrives in Mexico, where Latin American leaders are hosting the US President at a reception in which they must all move about on their knees.
  14. The Moslem pilgrims who crowded into the Mo'essem tunnel in Mecca were hurrying to perform the ritual of "stoning the devil," the climax of the annual pilgrimage, or hajj.
  15. The events now reaching a climax began last September, with the Paris bombings ostensibly carried out by a group of Lebanese demanding the release from French custody of George Ibrahim Abdallah and two other jailed terrorists.
  16. To restore ties with the United States, "the Great Satan," would climax Iran's widening links with the outside world.
  17. Elaborate flower arrangements in the shape of the national flag and other symbols have been erected in the vast square, and specially chosen groups will perform dances there over the weekend. Celebrations will climax with a fireworks display Sunday night.
  18. The disclosure also could prove embarrassing to Sears, which is locked in a proxy fight set to climax at the annual meeting tomorrow.
  19. Then, as a climax to yesterday's pricing melee, several U.S. refiners lowered the prices they will pay in the field for WTI by 75 cents to $15.75 a barrel.
  20. He keeps duplicates in his office, at home and in his car in case Lord Weinstock tracks him down when he is on the move. The climax of this financial ritual is the annual budget meeting.
  21. Her act brings a climax in her marriage and in the community.
  22. This story lacks "Matewan's" horrifying climax, so spreading the narrative across so many equally weighted characters can't help but thin it out somewhat.
  23. The first big climax impatiently arrived too early; later outbursts sometimes ignited spontaneously, rather than coming as the logical end of Shostakovich's long, slow fuse.
  24. The discovery of the NF-1 gene, as it's now being called, was announced July 13, the climax of a search that had begun less than five years earlier.
  25. A giant 600-foot-long and 60-foot-high structure made of 2,500 styrofoam bricks will come crashing down at the concert's climax.
  26. The London NATO summit sent the proper military signals, and to climax the deal, Chancellor Kohl flew to Zheleznovodsk with his checkbook.
  27. But the climax is suitably cathartic.
  28. The climax came at the end of a 50-minute anti-American diatribe by Mohtashemi with the burning of 160 American flags.
  29. The incident illustrates the dogged, methodical approach of the chief Iran-Contra prosecutor as his investigation, after 13 months, moves toward a climax.
  30. For the rank and file, the vote - the climax of the 101st Congress' raucous year - was a chance to make a statement and return home in time for Election Day.
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