| 单词 | meteoric |
| 释义 | meteoric (miːtiɒrɪk , US -ɔːr- ) adjective If you use meteoric when you are describing someone's career, you mean that they achieved success very quickly. ...his meteoric rise to fame. His early career had been meteoric. Synonyms: spectacular, sudden, overnight, rapid Collocations: meteoric career Three years and 8m albums into a meteoric career, a lot rests on his slender shoulders. Times, Sunday Times He had experienced everything in his meteoric career at the school, except failure. Times, Sunday Times A stress fracture in his foot signalled the beginning of the end of his brief meteoric career. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This meteoric career was marked by several multiple victory days. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her brief but meteoric career took off in the late 1960s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After his meteoric rise to superstardom, things started to go off the rails earlier this year. Times, Sunday Times Few would be as grounded and seemingly unchanged after such a meteoric rise. Times, Sunday Times The rules of economic growth suggest that tech stocks' meteoric rise can't continue at the present pace. Times,Sunday Times Interestingly, despite his later meteoric rise, until his late 40s he had 'built nothing and barely left the library'. Times, Sunday Times The by-election result was not a terrific surprise, but it was certainly a meteoric rise for an unknown outsider. Times, Sunday Times |
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