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climacteric

/klahy-mak-ter-ik, klahy-mak-ter-ik/US // klaɪˈmæk tər ɪk, ˌklaɪ mækˈtɛr ɪk //UK // (klaɪˈmæktərɪk, ˌklaɪmækˈtɛrɪk) //

气候变化,攀枝花,攀比,攀枝花市

Related Words

acute急性,急症,急性病,急剧key钥匙,关键,密钥,关键的defining界定,定义,确定,确定性juncture关口,交接点,关头,接缝处climax高潮,高潮期,高潮迭起,高潮部分crossroad十字路口,十字路,横路,十字街head头,头部,头颅,头头crisis危机,危机事件,危机感,危机感十足crucial关键,重要的,重要,关键的decisive决定性的,果断的,果断,决定性significant显著的,显著,重要的,有意义的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Physiology. a period of decrease of reproductive capacity in men and women, culminating, in women, in the menopause.
    • : any critical period.
    • : a year in which important changes in health, fortune, etc., are held by some theories to occur, as one's sixty-third year .
    • : the period of maximum respiration in a fruit, during which it becomes fully ripened.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also cli·mac·ter·i·cal [klahy-mak-ter-i-kuhl]. /ˌklaɪ mækˈtɛr ɪ kəl/. critical; crucial.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.critical
Synonyms
acute急性,急症,急性病,急剧defining界定,定义,确定,确定性key钥匙,关键,密钥,关键的crucial关键,重要的,重要,关键的decisive决定性的,果断的,果断,决定性significant显著的,显著,重要的,有意义的
nounturning point
Synonyms
climax高潮,高潮期,高潮迭起,高潮部分crisis危机,危机事件,危机感,危机感十足crossroad十字路口,十字路,横路,十字街head头,头部,头颅,头头juncture关口,交接点,关头,接缝处critical stage关键阶段,重要阶段,临界阶段,关键期decisive point决定性的一点,决胜点,决定性的一点是,决定性的时刻

Examples

  • I know I am at a climacteric for all men who live by their wits, so I do not despair.

  • There were those who pretended that the climacteric years were fatal to political bodies as well as to individuals.

  • Yet the struggle for what was accomplished appears to have created a climacteric in the doer.

  • He was dizzily weak; collapse had quickly followed the climacteric excitement of being beside her, of speaking to her.

  • Lorenzo the Magnificent had been ruling Florence for many years and was then at the climacteric of his fame.

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