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high-water mark

/hahy-waw-ter, -wot-er/US // ˈhaɪˈwɔ tər, -ˈwɒt ər //

高水位线,高水位点,高水位,最高水位线

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
    • : the highest point of anything; acme: Her speech was the high-water mark of the conference.

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Examples

  • Jane Doe is one massive boundary-pushing explosion of riffs and emotion that set a new high-water mark for heavy music.

  • So if debut episodes are likely to be the high-water marks for viewership, then doling out those debuts would be a way to ration GRPs.

  • Maybe the high-water mark for optimism came in 2014-15, when Paul Pierce joined Beal and John Wall for an enthralling playoff run.

  • It turns out that 2020 represents the high-water mark for share of play-action on passing plays across the league.

  • Within Campbell’s scheme on defense, Iowa State is compressing the pocket and bothering opposing quarterbacks, setting all-time team high-water marks in sack and pressure rate.

  • Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

  • When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

  • Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.

  • Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

  • In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.

  • Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: for the most High hath created him.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • Urbanity ushers in water that needs no apology, and gives a zest to the worst vintage.

  • The Majesty on high has a colony and a people on earth, which otherwise is under the supremacy of the Evil One.

  • In cross-section the burrows varied from round (three inches in diameter) to oval (three inches high and four inches wide).