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zenith

/zee-nith or, especially British, zen-ith/US // ˈzi nɪθ or, especially British, ˈzɛn ɪθ //UK // (ˈzɛnɪθ, US ˈziːnɪθ) //

天顶,天顶峰,顶点,顶峰

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the point on the celestial sphere vertically above a given position or observer.Compare nadir.
    • : a highest point or state; culmination.

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Examples

  • Who was the most erotic poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, when the quatrain reached its courtly zenith?

  • This reached its zenith when he and Jon Stewart held their Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear in 2010.

  • In his own mind he is at the zenith of his life, a man in full.

  • The major labor unions - then at the zenith of their political power - disliked Johnson.

  • In 1986, at the zenith of her strength, that figure was reduced to 1.9 million.

  • The sky was alight from zenith to horizon, the Nile aflame with sunrise, by the time the letter was written.

  • The leathered Diapason, indeed, is now attaining a zenith of popularity both in England and America.

  • Coloured shafts mapped the vault from horizon to zenith like the spokes of a prodigious wheel of fire.

  • The sun, a ball of fiery brass, burned directly in the zenith, so that the shadow of the foliage lay like a carpet about her feet.

  • How did it fare with the poor all over Europe in the centuries when Christianity was at the zenith of its power?