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apex

/ey-peks/US // ˈeɪ pɛks //UK // (ˈeɪpɛks) //

顶部,顶,顶点,顶峰

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural a·pex·es, a·pi·ces [ey-puh-seez, ap-uh-]. /ˈeɪ pəˌsiz, ˈæp ə-/.

    • : the tip, point, or vertex; summit.
    • : climax; peak; acme: His election to the presidency was the apex of his career.
    • : Astronomy. solar apex.

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Examples

  • In Colorado, proponents say reintroduction will create a healthy corridor for the apex predators between Canada and Mexico, and that wolves create a positive trophic cascade for ecosystems.

  • That cycle hit a new apex this week, when the New York Post published a report that raised numerous red flags suggesting a disinformation effort.

  • Bereaved widow Eve Harrington emerges from the shadowy alley in a rain-soaked trench coat, worms her way into stage actress Margo Channing’s inner-circle, then schemes and backstabs her way to the apex of the theater world.

  • Images of the interior show sunlight pouring through an oculus at its apex.

  • Both figures have fallen since the apex of pandemic lockdowns in May, but they remain above the peak of the Great Recession in 2009.

  • But the KKK actually reached its apex of influence during the 1920s.

  • He died at the apex, after one of the best rides of his life, in the oldest rodeo.

  • Its placing at the apex of British life is itself a little nuts, as the Ovation series shows.

  • The Gospel Tent at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, which opens today, is where Southern culture achieves an apex.

  • It allows us to see ourselves as the apex of history, the culmination of an inevitable, upward surge of improvement.

  • The upper wings are white, with a posterior broad black subtriangular border, having two or three white spots at the apex.

  • And, lastly, that at the apex of the nucleus the radicle of the future Embryo would constantly be found.

  • He considers the centre of the hilum as the base, and the chalaza, where it exists, as the natural apex of the seed.

  • The extreme apex is bifid, the lower process being rounded, the upper more pointed.

  • It is the crown and apex of all bad language, the coping-stone of all systems of verbal aggression and abuse.