zenith
zenith 英 [ˈzenɪθ] 美 [ˈzinɪθ]
n. 顶峰；顶点；最高点
名词复数:zeniths
- Zenith means the high point––it comes from astronomy, where it describes the highest point in an arc traveled by a star or a planet or another celestial body. The sun reaches its zenith when it is as high in the sky as it is going to go on that day.
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- n. 顶峰；顶点；最高点
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1. He has crawled in the huge bureaucratic machinery for several decades, till to zenith, where he kicked this machinery aside though, and the falling down of this machinery also means his falling.
他在这个庞大的官僚机器里爬行了几十年，爬到顶峰，却一脚踹开了这个机器，而这个机器的倒塌也意味着他自己的坠落。
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2. What’s possible in this field reaches its zenith in ATMs – and here, too, label printers provide the security printing, including among other things special security inks for banknotes and bank cards.
这个领域可能会在ATM柜员机的应用方面发展到顶点。 而且，标签印刷商提供的安全印刷也包括以专用的安全油墨印刷钞票和银行卡。
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3. Obama will be the zenith of black America for as long as he lives.
奥巴马毕其一生都将成为美国黑人运动成就的顶点。
- zenith (n.) "point of the heavens directly overhead at any place," late 14c., from Old French cenith (Modern French zénith), from Medieval Latin cenit, senit, bungled scribal transliterations of Arabic samt "road, path," abbreviation of samt ar-ras, literally "the way over the head." Letter -m- misread as -ni-.
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