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 culminating ['kʌlmineitiŋ添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 达绝顶的, 终极的, 最后的

  1. The sun reaches the culminating point at noon.
    太阳在中午时达到最高点。
  2. Anti-Chinese riots broke out in several cities, culminating in arson and bloodshed.
    在好几座城市发生了反对中国人的骚乱,甚至出现了纵火和流血事件。
  3. Wherever he is satisfied with what he does, he has reached his culminating point-- he will progress no more.
    一个人对所做的事感到自满的,就达到了顶点,不会再前进了。



Culminate \Cul"mi*nate\ (k[u^]l"m[i^]*n[=a]t), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. {Culminated} (-n[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Culminating} (-n[=a]`t[i^]ng.] [L. cuimen top or ridge. See
{Column}.]
1. To reach its highest point of altitude; to come to the
meridian; to be vertical or directly overhead.

As when his beams at noon
Culminate from the equator. --Milton.

2. To reach the highest point, as of rank, size, power,
numbers, etc.

The reptile race culminated in the secondary era.
--Dana.

The house of Burgundy was rapidly culminating.
--Motley.

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  2. In a series of changes culminating in a major reorganization last October, its chief executive officer, John Young, has eliminated excessive layers of management and put product development under strong leaders who have cut through red tape.
  3. They can read about Victorian Sugarplum Trees, or Santa Lucia's Day, or the entire Christmas holiday cycle culminating in Twelfth Night celebrations.
  4. There were frantic efforts to rescue him, culminating when a nearby Boy Scout troop formed a human chain and methodically combed through the water.
  5. The final year of Bourguiba's leadership was marked by a battle against the fundamentalist Islamic Tendency Movement, culminating in a trial in September of 90 fundamentalists on charges of plotting against the state.
  6. The aim of a guerrilla war is to slowly, through single, small actions culminating in larger operations, erode the domestic and international perception of a government's legitimacy.
  7. Yale has commissioned Lin to design a sculpture to celebrate new generations of Yale women on campus, culminating a yearlong observance of the 20th anniversary.
  8. The battle to preserve the channel of this constantly silting river was a long one, culminating in the canalisation of the final stretch from Chester to the sea, significantly improving the drainage of the adjacent farmland.
  9. The shake-up at the company follows four years of steadily declining profits, culminating in a first-half pretax loss of 73.7 billion lire, compared with a pretax profit of 60.9 billion a year earlier.
  10. What Ms. Lynch sees for the stock market next year is prices increasing in an irregular manner, culminating in a record in mid-September.
  11. Looking at the FCS, Duncan said the network of banks and associations "nearly collapsed in 1985" but was saved by a series of legislative actions culminating in the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987.
  12. Disturbances began in Nagorno-Karabakh early this year and spread to Yerevan in late February, culminating in street demonstrations in which as many as a million of the republic's 3.4 million residents took part.
  13. The Buffalo Area Metropolitan Ministries called on Americans to select a day or days of fasting and prayer in support of the hostages, culminating in a 24-hour fast beginning the evening of March 15.
  14. But in various ways they ended up humiliating him, culminating in the confrontation that resulted in his leaving the company just two weeks before he was to preside over the annual convention of the Magazine Publishers of America.
  15. But Iraqi warplanes began hitting Larak as well, culminating in a May 14 strike in which several supertankers were sunk or crippled.
  16. Granting of immunity to Mr. Mooradian indicates that the government has now secured the cooperation of four of the most important participants in events culminating in a $5.3 million payment from Mr. Boesky to Drexel in March 1986.
  17. After a string of disappointments - culminating with the decision in March to abandon development of a new anti-viral compound - the company will struggle to regain a premium rating. There is no single reason for Wellcome's sudden rehabilitation.
  18. Sacramento County Municipal Court Judge Gail Ohanesian, culminating a five-week preliminary hearing, ruled that the 61-year-old Dorothea Puente should be arraigned in Superior Court on July 10.
  19. Some government officials feared Noble aimed to trigger uprisings elsewhere in the archipelago, culminating in yet another coup attempt.
  20. Parker and 34 others were arrested on federal charges of killing or selling black bear in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, culminating a three-year undercover investigation of poaching in the Appalachians.
  21. Those attacks, culminating in last Thursday's televised debate, where the mutual dislike was palpable, backfired.
  22. Ashura is derived from the Arabic word for the number 10. It refers to the first 10 days of the first month of the Islamic lunar calendar, Muharram, culminating in the tenth day, the day of Hussein's death.
  23. Instead of "psyching the troops," Mr. Emery says, the meeting proved to be a disaster, culminating in a tedious session at which every officer of the company made a speech.
  24. One way of reconciling their viewpoints would be for the core countries of the ERM to forge ever closer ties - culminating, perhaps, in a de facto monetary union among themselves.
  25. In late March, it began a series of credit tightening moves, culminating in August with a one-half percentage point increase to 6.5 percent in its discount rate, the interest it charges to make bank loans.
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